And it was darkSo dark at nightAnd we held on to each otherLike brother to brotherWe promised our mothers we'd writeAnd we would all go down together

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Only the good die young.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Feeding a lion will not prevent it from feeding on you.

I do not like the world as it is; so I am trying to make it a little more as I want it.

When I hear a great musician, I can feel his life inside the music.

I am in love with my La Cornue custom-made stove - it's a dream to use and my favourite part of the kitchen.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

Playing the Cretan with the Cretans (i.e. lying to liars).

I was a little kid who used to fight a lot in the street-and get beat up.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

People think of these eureka moments and my feeling is that they tend to be little things, a little realisation and then a little realisation built on that.

I don't think a monarchy led by 75- and 80-year-old men [Saudi Arabia] in today's modern world is really sustainable.