I'm not afraid to be bluntly honest in my songs, even if it means I'm discovering things about myself that I'd rather not.

Across the board, from my mother to my father to my aunts and uncles, everybody has always given me a lot of love.

I like down-to-earth people.

Nothing is more powerful than beauty in a wicked world.

I'm in love with a girl who's in love with the world.

I'm not into cold weather, I like warm weather.

Theres nothing but spirit in music. Thats all it is. Yeah, theres a lot of intellectual elements to it, but no matter how you approach it, its all spirit.

I can relate to soul, R&B... whatever people want to call me is fine. I just hope it makes them feel something.

I'm not a mass-appeal artist.

I don't know anything about music theory at all. Zero. But I don't really need to.

I wasn't a very good teacher.

She leans into the memory. She stares. She concentrates. What IS it that's she's looking for, trying to get straight at last?

The building of the architecture of a novel - the craft of it - is something I never tire of.

I wasn't a financial pro, and I paid the price.

When we were doing Bullets over Broadway, he told me to be more fragile and I thought I was, but he saw it completely differently.

To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.

I'm such a control freak. I want to control even my own death. Decide when I will die and how.

When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?

Organizations are now confronted with two sources of change: the traditional type that is initiated and managed; and external changes over which no one has control.

Nothing destroys one's respect in the hearts of others more than greed.

Oddly enough, Hendrix is not my favorite guitar player. There are very few guitar players I get feeling from.