Here I am starting a franchise and I'm gonna be 65 years old. I should've started this in 1978... I wrote like 300 songs and I'm gonna have to re-learn some of them!

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.

Belief has nothing to do with facts, especially for the unbelievable facts.

Never sever ties with a family member you once loved. Each of you might be on different spiritual paths, but both trails are leading you home.

Have peoples FUNDAMENTAL rights been compromised ?Answers please.

Between words and objects one can create new relations and specify characteristics of language and objects generally ignored in everyday life.

I used to think being loved was the greatest thing to think about, but now I know love is never satisfied just thinking about it.

The Spanish wine, my God, it is foul, catpiss is champagne compared, this is the sulphurous urination of some aged horse.

Having everything your way is highly overrated.

If I didn't have some kind of education, then I wouldn't be able to count my money.

The time to embrace your magnificence is now.

Invariably it turns out to be who you've been reading in the last couple of weeks, and two hours or two days [on favourite authors