A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.

Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

I like the idea of helping people help people.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

Why are there beings at all, instead of Nothing?

If you want to do the work of God, pay attention to people. Notice them. Especially the people nobody else notices.

She needed to get out of there. Her brains, thankfully, were still safely in her skull, but her emotions were splattered on the pavement.

Focus too much on the near-term and you won't get tomorrow's customers, focus too much on the long-term and you won't get today's.

Everything is difficult, and everything worthwhile is difficult. A certain need, a need not unlike Mickey had: to know, to understand, and I had that need to understand and to know.

One can abandon one's personal legend for a time, as long as one does not forget about it entirely and returns to it as soon as possible.

So let your deepest desires direct your aim. Set your sights far above the 'reasonable' target. The power of purpose is profound only if you have a desire that stirs the heart.

I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed. I had decided that I would have to know once and for all what rights I had as a human being and a citizen.