I don't have to compete in the charts. I can just be myself as a musician, a songwriter and play with the musicians that I really love.

There's a time for everyone, If they only learn, that the twisting kaleidoscope moves us all in turn.

Don't let the sun go down on me Although I search myself, it's always someone else I see I'd just allow a fragment of your life to wander free But losing everything is like the sun going down on me

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

Ask anyone. If it hadn't been for Elvis, I don't know where popular music would be. He was the one that started it all off, and he was definitely the start of it for me.

But you know, I have a pretty good relationship with the press and the paparazzi. It's just when they step over the line that, you know, enough's enough.

Don't judge the picture by the frame, every man is not the same

Live for each second without hesitation

Sometimes when I’m flying over the Alps I think, 'that’s like all the cocaine I sniffed.'

Better to build a bridge than a wall.

Perhaps there was an unstoppable magic inherent in music and art.

We may lack riches, but the greatest fortune is what lies in our hearts.

Frankly, our technology is not up to date. We're letting it slip by.

Raven?' Yes?' What do you believe in?' I believe in - finding out!

The past is history, the future is a mystery. But today is a gift...that's why they call it the present. So cherish every minute of it.

To only a fraction of the human race does God give the privilege of earning one's bread doing what one would have gladly pursued free, for passion.

So many laws argues so many sins.

If you think about the unthinkable long enough it becomes quite reasonable.

I don't feel like my speed or my power or my desire to play this game has diminished at all.