I dont have any assistants, I do it all myself, I dont have any secretaries.

We came off the road of the last tour very inspired to just keep playing, so we went to Canada.

You know, I am just a musician and I have no idea these days what good and bad is in terms of labels.

I love the feeling of creating pictures in someone's mind just by spelling out the right lyrical combination.

I mean, Beatles songs were two and a half minutes long, and they're fantastic.

So for my studio purposes, I know that I'm in my studio with technicians who've done amazing things to my board and to my power amps and I know what I can deliver out of my studio.

So when bands work with me and it's 10 o'clock, usually you'd have to be getting out of the studio, we could go on until 2 in the morning cause it's my place!

So I was always around music and my dad was in his own way a progressive jazzer, a big band jazzer guy.

Sometimes I hear a drum groove in my head and I rush down to my studio.

I grew up in a very musical family, my father was a musician and a big band leader and made records.

So one can say that I write all the time, that goes for the lyrics as well.

Freeze when you are angry: your brain needs time to cleanse the anger!

Never let your failures go to your heart or your successes go to your head.

Why do we always think our pain will be less if we can make others suffer more?

I wanna make a jigsaw puzzle that's 40, 000 pieces. And when you finish it, it says 'go outside.'

I think I'll sleep now.

[To the South African parliament:] I do not know why we equate - and with the examples before us - a white skin with civilization.

I wonder why people like to believe I'm high all the time. I guess . . . maybe they think someone else can take their trip for them.

We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.

Goering appeared at times to be all things to all men.

I might do something in Arabic. I might do something in Hebrew.