Honest, I listen to classical mostly. It keeps my mind fresh to write rock songs.

If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

Drugs, alcohol and ego. They are a bad mix.

I am not in competition with my peers; I am in competition with myself.

Peter Baltes was the best bassist I ever played with.

Great people stand out from others by their visions and not much by their intelligence.

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.

Fear and anger are a threat to justice. They can infect a community, a state, or a nation, and make us blind, irrational, and dangerous.

The busy have no time for tears.

It is very scary to think mechanically about someone you know. That means that the second time you meet a person is useless. Which I tend to believe anyway.

The thoughts we choose to think are the tools we use to paint the canvas of our lives.

Love is the emblem of eternity; it confounds all notion of time.

To eat is human, to digest, divine

All truly great art is optimistic. The individual artist is happy in his creative work. The fact that practically all great art is tragic does not in any way change the above thesis.

Sir Alec Douglas-Home, when he was British Foreign Secretary, said he received the following telegram from an irate citizen: "To hell with you. Offensive letter follows."