I find it somewhat difficult to write with other people, although it has happened occasionally.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

Our lives are the sum of our memories. How much are we willing to lose from our already short lives by … not paying attention?

Break the character and independence of your man and you will have an obedient trooper.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

God's judgement begins to fall on the Earth.

[God] wants you to have something far better than riches and gold, and that is helpless dependence upon Him.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

So we are being systematically trained to fear this false 'rising crime' tide. This is all part of a system to lock up more people, and impose more control and surveillance.

Live a lie, and you will live to regret it; that's what livin' is to me.

Stand up and face your fears, or they will defeat you.

You know, people tend to like to buy companies that are doing well.