I have no problem paying my dues and I have no problem going out and working the club circuit.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Try not to be in a hurry to get older because youth happens once in your life. Thereafter, old age stays with you forever.

He's not the finest character that ever lived. But he's a human being, and a terrible thing is happening to him. So attention must be paid.

The degree of genius necessary to please us is pretty nearly the same proportion that we ourselves have.

Please accept this humble fax. My love for you is without wax.

Cyberspace still exists at the pleasure of the real world.

Younger workers should have more freedom to build their retirement nest egg.

If God grants me longer life, I will see to it that no peasant in my kingdom will lack the means to have a chicken in the pot every Sunday.

Just as food causes chronic disease, it can be the most powerful cure

Usually I'm too tired to apologize.

If you’ll believe in me, I’ll believe in you.