Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

I'd like my records to reach as many people as possible, but I'm also thinking in terms of how I can keep from getting jaded or unhappy with the process.

When others in doubt, your strong belief steers.

I started to think about the abyss that separates the poet from the reader and the next thing I knew I was deeply depressed.

We need to have a measure of love and freedom at all times, even with the ones we love much in our lives.

I always loved cooking, from an early age. I kind of wanted to be a chef.

First we forgive ourselves, then we forgive others and life itself.

A good education prepares you well for anything.

My power is discombobulatingly devastating.

Pleasures don't last like the snow falls in the river, a moment white - then melts for ever.

There is no cross, big or small, in our life which the Lord does not share with us.

My preference is 3,000, maybe 5,000-seat venues.