Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

I'm completely hooked on polo.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

She’d been let down enough times to know not to believe in fairy tales.

You shouldn't eat red meat, but you shouldn't make resolutions you can't keep.

It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again.

There are younger, stronger swimmers coming up and they are hungry. I can't influence what they do, I only know what I can do and I know how greedy I am to defend my title.

I was increasingly compelled to see the war as an enemy of the poor and to attack it as such.

I'm a linear thinking agnostic, but not an atheist folks.

Self-deprecating or arrogant, it's all selfish. Hard as it is, life's better when you spend more time on the rest of the world

I prefer recording drums in the analog format, but that does not mean I would only do it that way.

if i can only recount the story of my life right out of my body flames will grow