I'm 48 now and whatever I get music-wise, I get from my kids and that's it. I don't think I'll ever be hip again!

I think happiness is overrated. Satisfied, at peace-those would be more realistic goals.

You must lose everything in order to gain anything.

In Missouri, where I come from, we don't talk about what we do - we just do it. If we talk about it, it's seen as bragging.

I embrace the messiness of life. I find it so beautiful actually.

I would love to work in a Bollywood film as there is so much drama and colour in the films there.

Man, when I'm riding with the helmet on, I'm invisible. And people just deal with me as the guy on the bike... it gives you a chance to read 'em.

I'm probably 20 percent atheist and 80 percent agnostic. I don't think anyone really knows. You'll either find out or not when you get there, until then there's no point thinking about it.

The things you own end up owning you.

Do you know how you tell real love? It's when someone else's interest trumps your own.

Personally I like ageing. With age comes wisdom and I have said it before and I say it again, I will take wisdom over youth any day.

She reeked of respectability and sophistication, and he went hard on a helpless surge of lust.

Meeting a dragon is like falling in love. Even though you have never experienced it before, you will know when it has happened.

There is no good or evil, there is only power and those too weak to weak it.

I was born lucky and I have lived lucky. What I had was used. What I still have is being used. Lucky.

Giving money and power to government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.

They're selling postcards of the hanging.

Can you honestly say the environment(s) you are in will yield the kind of harvest you are expecting?

Why worry about things you can't control when you can keep yourself busy controlling the things that depend on you?

I truly enjoyed Greece - Santorini. That's somewhere that I always want to be.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.