When you record, you live with what you recorded for many many years, but when you play it's just an hour and a half and then once it's over it's over.

Sometimes you're trapped in writing songs and you don't have enough distance from what you do anymore and you need the talent and the years of other people to come and jump in.

Everything is temporary. Everything is bound to end.

I like the fact that there is challenge.

It was an hour and a half plane ride, so I slept. I try to sleep because that's probably the only time I get to get my real sleep. When I can't sleep I read books or watch movies.

I'm always on a train or a plane, so wherever I happen to be is home.

I'm nothing more than what you actually see, but I am also the complete opposite.

I was in the studio so much, it was about the search for air in a metaphoric sense, and the breathing has more to do with travel for me, about the search musically for open air.

I believe that the beauty of repetition is something that is not explored enough yet.

It's just trying everyday to do the best you can and to enjoy what you have with the mixture of the venue and the sound and the crowd.

When you write songs, you can't really point out the exact thing you're inspired by. It's more a state or a mood or an atmosphere that you're trying to put into words.

A person or nation begins to live and act according to the word of God, as a result of change in the value system and therefore life around them changes.

Just don't be afraid to be who you are and you will be successful.

The road to enlightenment requires a life dedicated to self-study, accepting the minor tragedies of life as an ineluctable part of the human condition.

Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.

I do have many of the same friends I grew up with. Most I've known since we were three or four years old! I have made new friends as well.

The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to have been influenced by what you said

The Dark Side of the Moon has flash - the true flash that comes from the excellence of a superb performance.

When Jane and I spoke out, people thought, What ungrateful children those two kids are to be that nasty about their father.

I was known as a 35-mm photographer with a view-camera mentality.

I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.