I love to go on tour and perform. I love all the parts of the process.

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

Emotions can become habits - she said haltingly as she wiped her eyes. But habits can be changed".

He thought, I got wings on my eyes, and the thought was so odd and yet so pleasing to him that he felt suddenly that he was immensely special, that there could be no one like him in the world.

There is not a man beneath the canopy of heaven, that does not know that slavery is wrong for him.

I slept for four years. I didn't study much of anything. I majored in something called communication arts.

If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.

You don't change the world out of obligation, but you will out of glorious obsession.

Testosterone is a great equalizer, it turns all men into morons.

I'm trying not to let the anger and the violence that erupt take over my life. I guess it comes with the growing process, I don't know. A little mellowing.

All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not.

Here was buried Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of American Independence, of the statute of Virginia for religious freedom, and father of the University of Virginia.