I always try to write a song to work things out with myself and I want to do it with a little punchline at the end, because I never want to remember anything bad in my life.

Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.

I don't think your ability to fight has anything to do with how big you are. It's to do with how much anger is in you.

I'm romantic. I fall in love every day. Not with people but with situations. The other day, I saw a tramp polishing his shoes. That just gripped my heart.

I've always had my own style, I've always been different. I don't like to wear anything that anyone else is wearing because it's very important for me to make a statement.

Life is so much more rewarding if you strive for something, rather than take what's given to you on a plate.

Every bad situation is a blues song waiting to happen.

Life happens. There is no point in being upset or down about things we can't control or change.

I don’t need help because if I can’t help myself I can’t be helped.

Music is the only thing that will give and give and give and not take.

If you don't throw yourself into something, you'll never know what you could have had.

O happy wound, full of delight, He whom You wound Is joyous indeed.

His (Lincoln's) patriotism was saved from idolatry by the overwhelming sense of the sovereignty of God.

I've had cancer twice and if I had to pick one fate for you, cancer or fertility problems-I'd pick cancer.

Telling some stories, Miss Leroy says, is committing suicide.

Be prepared to do whatever you have to do. If you get put in a situation where your back is up against the wall let your gun go off.

Industrial capitalism brought representative democracy, but with a weak public mandate and inert citizenry. The digital age offers a new democracy based on public deliberation and active citizenship.

When people make the mistake of underestimating me, that's when they are really in for their biggest surprise.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

Future generations will look back on TV as the lead in the water pipes that slowly drove the Romans mad.

...a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.