Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

If you're driving, don't forget your car.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

What comes from the soul, you can’t fake or learn. You be it, by letting it.

You get to decide where your time goes. You can either spend it moving forward, or you can spend it putting out fires. You decide. And if you don't decide, others will decide for you.

I became popular very young. I viewed myself as just a young actor trying to figure out how to do well, and, you know, making mistakes and learning and growing.

The real truth of that is that much as you want to believe that it's you being on top of everything, you're actually relying massively on the people around you.

We are almost always wearied in the company of persons with whom we are not permitted to be weary.

You know, albums are a funny thing. They're not like an intellectual decision. It's a collection of your kind of musings.

Ain't it funny how a moment could just change your life, and you don't want to face what's wrong or right. Ain't it strange how fate can play a part, in the story of your heart.

While I recommend studying the art from artists, Nature is and must be the fountain which alone is inexhaustible, and from which all excellences must originally flow.

I know that with perfect play, God versus God, Fritz versus Fritz, chess is a draw.

Everything I do is for my people.