Fame has a lot of baggage to carry around. I wouldn't want to be like Bruce Springsteen. I don't need that much money and wouldn't want to have 20 bodyguards following me.

If you're writing anything decent, it's in you, it's your spirit coming out. If it's not an expression of how a person genuinely feels, then it's not a good song done with any conviction.

I guess my life has been a series of flukes in the record business. The first thing I ever did, was the biggest record that I'll ever have.

Everywhere I go, there are all these Big Star freaks, and they’re nice little guys who are usually in college, and they’re kind of lonely and misunderstood, learning to play guitar.

Sometimes I'll come up with a lick that I really love, and I'll try to put the right words to it for years. Suddenly something comes to me that works just right.

His mind was logical, but his traitorous heart stuttered from beat to beat.

Our prayers for others flow more easily than those for ourselves. This shows we are made to live by charity.

He who receives a benefit with gratitude repays the first installment on his debt.

I guess I was popular in high school.

Any surplus is immoral.

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended against the heaviest odds.

We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games; I won a gold medal.

How can I have peace? Not by talking about peace, But by walking Along the road of peace.

A transcendent being can be any miracle.