Drank a lot of take home pay.

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.

Where would we have been without the discoveries of our predecessors, and where are we going without your discoveries?

Love Me Even More when I Seem Least Deserving... For That is the Very Moment That I Am Most in Need of Your Love.

Intuition is truth.

If 2,000 Tea Party activists descended on Wall Street, you would probably have an equal number of reporters there covering them.

Personal courage is really a very subordinate virtue-a virtue, indeed, in which we are surpassed by the lower animals; or else you would not hear people say, as brave as a lion.

Downplaying their faults is pretty much the point of campaigns. But we do count on them living with the constant terror of public rejection.

.....before we can change the world we need to change our minds.

Her other mother smiled brightly and the hair on her head drifted like plants under the sea.

Middle Age At forty-five, What next, what next? At every corner, I meet my Father, My age, still alive.

There are a ton of foods that are great for you, that's like an indulgence.