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

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.

Peter Baltes was the best bassist I ever played with.

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

Style is a sacred fashion.

The spirituality of your soul will lead to your survival in life.

You know the life you have committed yourself to often ends in death.All life does.pg 217

My mother was a public school teacher in Virginia, and we didn't have any money, we just survived on happiness, on being a happy family.

The real process of making decisions, of gathering support, of developing opinions, happens before the meeting or after.

Anything that's popular gets made into a diet. Acai is no more of a diet than the eraser on your No. 2 pencil.

Potential just means you ain't done it yet.

We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

Laws and machines are shaped to fit the classes.

I had not read George Eliot, so read a few. I felt ashamed I hadn't read "Middlemarch" before.