I don't really feel any different when I get up on stage.

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

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

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.

True freedom is the ability to respond consciously, in the most beneficial way, to whatever life throws at you.

Just as we expect others to value our boundaries, it's equally important for us to respect the boundaries of others.

For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

While I admire the insights of many of the people in the world of computing, I get this cold feeling that I speak a different language.

I have to say that movies have as much impact on me as music. And that I learned as much about narrative from movies as I did from reading novels, how to arrange stories, how to juxtapose things.

Literary friendship is a sympathy not of manners, but of feelings.

I don't like show business. I don't like the business. I love acting. I love this. I love talking to people.

When we look at thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, we must, once we cross the threshold, grasp the essence of the thing.

friendship was always contingent.

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.