Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.

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.

I was wounded by a blow of love.

Civilization is nothing more than the effort to reduce the use of force to the last resort.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

What do young girls dream of? Of the knife and of blood.

Shining outward qualities, although they may excite first-rate expectations, are not unusually found to be the companions of second-rate abilities.

The authorities should stipulate what issues people can protest over and on what issues it is not allowed.

Who is whose Guru? God alone is the guide and Guru of the universe.

When you write - explode - fly apart - disintegrate! Then give time enough to think, cut, rework, and rewrite.

Being exposed to theory, stimulated by a basic love of concepts and mathematics, was a marvelous experience.

I see myself as a person who wants to serve the constituents within my district and find a way to move those who are not in our position philosophically to our position.