I'm not a trust-fund type.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Stay young and wild as long as you can

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

Humanity had to expand the limits of its consciousness to learn to ask the right questions.

Me? As England's answer to Jonah Lomu? Joanna Lumley, more likely.

I think those autoworkers whose industry would have collapsed if the president hadn't intervened are certainly better off.

Our whole life consists of despairing of an answer and seeking an answer.

The only saving grace of the present is that it's too damned stupid to question the past very closely.

Being vulnerable and strong is a complicated thing, but that's who we are.

I want to write a book which is the history of comedy.

Is society debasing the idea of heroism by using it to describe anyone who makes people feel good about themselves?

Worry is an addiction that interferes with compassion.

The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language.