Do you know anybody under 25 that gives a damn whether you marry a man if you're a man or if you marry a woman if you're a woman? No.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

Motherhood is hard enough without judgement from others who don't know the whole story.

The difference is too nice - Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

He that is neither one thing nor the other has no friends.

Crony capitalism is essentially a condition in which... public officials are giving favours to people in the private sector in payment of political favours.

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate.

I'm always trying to do things that no one has ever seen before.

There's nothing in the world like that first taste of beer.

The seaman tells stories of winds, the ploughman of bulls; the soldier details his wounds, the shepherd his sheep.

'When I use a word,' Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, 'it means just what I choose it to mean - neither more nor less.'

To me, songs come of their own volition - and with an open-ended philosophy.