As soon as I got into music, I tried to be a working, real artist who gets paid for what he does, who doesn't have a day job.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

Let me feel how thy pulses beat.

Every natural love will rise again and live forever in this country: but none will rise again until it has been buried.

Albatrosses and penguins are the last birds I'd want to murder.

But what's in a name? We have named all of the stars and all the planets, even though they might already have names of their own. What a nerve!

The most important thing about getting somewhere is starting right where we are.

A Soviet diplomat, like a skilled chess player, does not expect his opposite number to give up something for nothing, not even a pawn.

The revolution cannot be funded. It's not the imagination of trusts and foundations that's going to bring real change.

I'm British; pessimism is my wheelhouse.

Prison experience puts distance between me and any person who hasn't been there, done that.

For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.