I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt...a few girls have passed out, that's all.

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

Scientist alone is true poet.

If nice guys finish last, then great guys come in right after them.

There is a God, and his name is Aristophanes.

A border collie named Orson inspired me to buy a 110-acre farm with four barns and a sheep. That led to a series of books about Bedlam Farm and about dogs, rural life, lambing and herding sheep.

To run hard after holiness is another way of running hard after God.

Negroes - Sweet and docile, Meek, humble, and kind: Beware the day - They change their mind.

He is more worth to you, perhaps. But the stranger is someone else's friend and brother. So which life is more important?

Unclean spirits increase the passions in us, making use of our negligence, and inciting them. But the angels decrease our passions, inciting us to the perfection of virtue.

The actors come and you start seeing things happen for real.

Now up and atom it's on, I was raised to be strong, and mama told me be a thug since the day I was born. The fame was a plot to try a change me, and what's strange is nobody knew my name.