Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

You are only as big as your experiences.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

It's not always easy, but it's usually simple.

Appreciation is a wonderful thing. It makes what is excellent in others belong to us as well.

Nothing in this universe is able to complete its travel on the road of infinity! Because the road is very very long, travellers eventually get tired and turn into autumn leaves!

As ever, books remained a medium through which Theodore and Edith connected and interpreted larger world.

Doubt is the enemy of creativeness.

Spiritual achievement costs much, though never as much as it is worth.

But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he.

Faith is the foundation of every virtue that strengthens marriage.

God considers not the action, but the spirit of the action.