All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

I am not in love / But I'm open to persuasion.

For every seed of godliness, kindness and justice sowed, there will be surely be a harvest of goodness, significance and greatness.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

Nothing is more difficult, and therefore more precious, than to be able to decide.

I don't know what's wrong with my television set. I was getting C-Span and the Home Shopping Network on the same station. I actually bought a congressman.

The hurt of a love that is lost has no cure but the love of another heart.

For it is written that just as it is forbidden to partake of the forbidden, it is forbidden not to partake of the permitted.

I love meeting Israeli people. They look at me like a son

I don't think I ever had any relationship with any showrunner, over time, with whom I didn't have conflict.

The central problem of brand-building is getting a complex organization to execute a simple idea.

One single day of devotion is worth more than a thousand years of worldly life.