I focus on the words and then I have fun putting together the music after.

You gotta lean towards the things that make you like yourself. Forget everything else.

It is the melody and the rhythm that are by far the most important and then words and imagery and stuff, story bits will start to stick to a melody and that is the way I write.

I became at peace with the darkness or the personality that I have. I am usually pretty funny and happy.

I drink wine on stage to sort of loosen my grip on reality a little.

My parents know that I have always been sort of a dark melodramatic kid, so they were never concerned.

A song is a song and, if I am emotionally connected to do it, whether it is sad or not sad, I am going to chase that song.

I don't want somebody telling my daughter who she can marry, or what she can do with her body. That's what was at stake.

Maybe because I have spent too much of my life in rock clubs. I don't really go to parties anymore either. I'll usually be in the bus by 11:30 after a show.

I actually don't go to shows anymore. Rock concerts have lost their appeal for me.

Live on coffee and flowers. Try not to worry what the weather will be.

At a time like this, we can't afford the luxury of thinking!

Living in a democratic society means that I can express my opinion, Having a democratic government means that they don't have to listen.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

Progress is the mother of problems.

I have written every one of my novels to convince somebody of something.

Man was born for two things--thinking and acting.

I could have seen myself going into academia, but I don't love it; I just like it.

I dont have good luck in the match points.

Someone, I tell you, in another time will remember us

It is continued temperance which sustains the body for the longest period of time, and which most surely preserves it free from sickness.