I always wanted to try to be a teacher even before I was in the music business. I liked history, and good teachers made an impact on me.

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.

There are no such things as curses

What are we to do when we seem to grow out of God? Or at least the understanding of God that we grew up with?

It is in the darkness of their eyes that men lose their way.

Yet even the brightest of sunrises must come to an end.

Pretexts are not wanting when one wishes to use them.

A huge number of people are going through the process of awakening, some in the early stages, some in later stages, and it's wonderful to see.

I do not expect to get what I want, so I don't. And I don't even try.

[W]e are the heirs of a past of rope, fire, and murder. I for one am not ashamed of this past. My shame is for those who became so inhuman that they could inflict this torture upon us.

Sometimes, in a part, everything comes together.

We are suggesting a new kind of opulence, of intelligent indulgence over blind gluttony.