All those songs are totally timeless. They'll always stand up because they came from a real place. They weren't crafted songs. They were written from the heart.

If you are close to your parents or a grandparent, you watch as they get old and you learn so much from that, and it makes you want to learn more while you have time.

I was able to be more reckless and now I still make mistakes, but having kids, you have a responsibility and these little people who are looking up to you for everything.

All of my records have been very personal, just writing more and more songs, you get better at being able to say what you feel.

Being with my kids is really important to me, being a good dad and being around a lot.

You know, when I was younger I was into all kinds of art - drawing, painting, all that stuff. But I played drums, played piano forever.

They didn't need the words, if they were willing to be silent long enough to learn to speak without them.

Bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh.

I am not a name-dropper. I can't help it if everybody I know is famous.

Peace is a journey of a thousand miles and it must be taken one step at a time.

You can't make people respond.

Leibniz never married; he had considered it at the age of fifty; but the person he had in mind asked for time to reflect. This gave Leibniz time to reflect, too, and so he never married.

Where the novel makes use of material from my life it does so because it's aesthetically convenient, not because of any allegiance it has to any verifiable facts.

Man has regarded woman as his tool. She has learnt to be his tool and in the end found it is easy and pleasurable to be such, because when one drags another in his fall, the descent is easy.

You mix Greek and Roman, you know what you get? You get BAM!

Film is like football - you join a team, get close to one or two people, then never hear from them again. I don't get emotionally involved. Do one, move on.