I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Only the good die young.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

When everything has gone down, God wants youto look up

I wasn’t in love with Daniel. I only met him an hour ago. That was impossible. Wasn’t it?

I'm sorry. This is diary, not enlightenment.

John Paul II spoke to the commoner and to the king, to the tyrant and to the democrat in that same language of freedom.

I don't really know that I really have an opinion that I think people need to hear.

The Pre highlighted things I needed to tweak. I'm glad I ran there and found the things I needed to tweak and didn't find those things out here.

Realize that there are not hopeless situations; there are only people who take hopeless attitudes.

Once you taste the second income in the household and it changes your lifestyle, you get used to it.

I have no power, and that's what's so humbling.