Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

If you're driving, don't forget your car.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

Write like it matters, and it will.

The weight of God's love for humanity cannot be determined. But felt with a grateful heart.

Romantic EgoistNozomi: You've got an idea in your head... how you should act, but you can't act like, so you stifle yourself and don't even try.

The flowering of geometry.

Hope is a good breakfast but it is a bad supper.

You are stronger than you realize. You are more capable than you can imagine.

And I try to give the best bang for the buck. I love performing more than anything else.

I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.

If you imagine my studio floor, you can just keep picking it up and getting masterpieces.

Leadership is neither showmanship nor dictatorship. Leadership is a stewardship and a partnership.