And I don't expect anyone can bring about a revolution in the way that Bob Dylan did - and really didn't - in the 1960s.

Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious.

I've always felt that sexuality is a really slippery thing. In this day and age, it tends to get categorized and labeled, and I think labels are for food. Canned food.

Super casual music listeners. That's most of the people in the world. And you have to understand, that's why Top 40 radio exists. It's not there for people who seek out music and who love music.

A wise man once said, 'The skill in attending a party is knowing when it's time to leave.'

Love, love will be my strongest weapon

The only thing to fear is fearlessness.

Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.

Be yourself. Follow your heart. I know it sounds obvious, but it's the best advice at anyone ever. Take advice from other people, but take from it what feels right for you.

Never eat broccoli when there are cameras around.

My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.

The U.S.S. George H. W. Bush is a great thing in my life. It's amazing. A great honor.

Even within the last three or four years, I have a greater ability to communicate, I think. I have more courage to show the stuff... And it does take courage.

Some people look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why?' I look at creamed corn and ask, 'Why not?'

I don't think we'll get caught, but the very possibility is half the fun.

An entire composition written in jazz could not live.

I think of myself as an engineer, not as a visionary or 'big thinker.' I don't have any lofty goals.

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

The legends of fieldwork locate all important sites deep in inaccessible jungles inhabited by fierce beasts and restless natives, and surrounded by miasmas of putrefaction and swarms of tsetse flies.

A good collection is more than just the sum of its parts.

I Sing what was lost and dread what was won, / I walk in a battle fought over again.