I'm always going forward toward something, and that something is usually an album, because I like to record. I probably like to record more than I like to write.

I was eating in a Chinese restaurant downtown. There was a dish called Mother and Child Reunion. It's chicken and eggs. And I said, I gotta use that one.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

Improvisation is too good to leave to chance.

If you can get humor and seriousness at the same time, you've created a special little thing, and that's what I'm looking for, because if you get pompous, you lose everything.

Sail on silver girl Sail on by Your time has come to shine All your dreams are on their way See how they shine Oh, if you need a friend I'm sailing right behind.

I don't feel any pressure from fans. But I'm always in some kind of state of emotional turmoil. I would not describe myself as happy-go-lucky. That's not to say that I'm not happy.

Believing I had supernatural powers, I slammed into a brick wall.

I've got nothing to do today but smile.

Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

Someone told me it's all happening at the zoo.

Pollution is nothing but the resources we are not harvesting. We allow them to disperse because we've been ignorant of their value.

Misery is the end of those with unbridled mouths.

America, I'm gonna shoot straight with you, I think I've wasted your time. I think this is the first time I have wasted an hour of your time. I apologize for that.

France may one day exist no more, but the Dordogne will live on just as dreams live on and nourish the souls of men.

Why are we, the most medicalized of societies, a culture in pain?

I just always wanted to be a singer. My mom said I was even singing in my cot!

As a straight news correspondent I would never make an issue of someone's personal life unless they have put it out there for public consumption.

Before God could bring me to this place He has broken me a thousand times.

I always want to work with people that I can grow with.

What writers do - everything comes from inside, from experiences of the world that we have digested. And then we turn it into silk, or stories.