Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

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.

She was my friend because she was kind and funny but she had a face like two oysters fused together in a Star Trek matter transporter accident.

A person's worth is measured by the worth of what he values.

Many often errors lead to discoveries, but our fantasies and limitations are tested by blunders!

True openness is the accompaniment of the desire to know, hence of the awareness of ignorance. To deny the possibility of knowing good and bad is to suppress true openness.

I don't like the word "experiment" in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.

I go everywhere by boat. I don't fly. It makes me feel really immobile but great.

Music is important for one's health.

No comedy should be longer than 90 minutes. There's no such thing as a good long joke.

The goal of our life should not be to find joy in marriage, but to bring more love and truth into the world.

The magnet's name the observing Grecians drew. From the magnetic region where it grew.