You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars regardless of who you are

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

I put my own d*ck in my mouth. I was 14 and much more flexible at the time. It was soft and required a lot of pulling. I really wanted that case of beer.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.

I would call myself more spiritual than religious.

It's a small percentile of people who see one dime out of the music business.

Cheating and lying aren't struggles, they're reasons to break up.

She’d forgotten to love, but she also forgot to hate. (about Clara’s mother, who had dementia)

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

I don't think there is such a thing as pure imagination. I think it's a combination of memory and invention.

The great man is sparing in words but prodigal in deeds.

A good man giving bad advice is more dangerous than a nasty man giving bad advice.

I write line by line, by the sound and the weight and the music of the words.

friendship was always contingent.

I loved my motherland dearly before I went to America and England. After my return, every particle of dust of this land seems sacred to me.

How many things both just and unjust are sanctioned by custom?