I'm very much an observer and a conduit of thoughts and ideas.

If Jesus Christ came back today, He and I would get into our brown corduroys and go to the nearest jean store and overturn the racks of blue denim.

I can never make up my mind if I'm happy being a flute player, or if I wish I were Eric Clapton.

Bring me a wheel of oaken wood A rein of polished leather A Heavy Horse and a tumbling sky Brewing heavy weather.

It's only the giving that makes you what you are.

A lot of pop music is about stealing pocket money from children.

Seek that which within lies waiting to begin the fight of your life that is everyday.

Another tea-time, another day older.

I make up my own mind in light of available facts, with my own experience and a sense of personal ethics.

Why do the faithful have such a will, to believe in something? And call in the name they choose, having chosen nothing.

Touring is what you make it. I like to organise as much as possible myself.

Establish a system of rewards and punishments

When humans act with cruelty we characterize them as "animals", yet the only animal that displays cruelty is humanity.

Testosterone makes you completely out of control, but that's okay.

I have failed 'Star Wars' trivia tests. People come up to me at conventions and use terms that I've never heard of.

Culture (science) is the form of religion; Religion is the substance of culture (science).

I'd love to work with David Lynch. I'm such a big fan. He's a genius.

I don't see that [Richard] Dawkins' basic account of evolution is incompatible with God's having designed it.

The problem for me is that I look like so many people in my family, so I can't really see anything. Except I could say that I look rather like my father without his mustache.

Persistence overshadows even talent as the most valuable resource shaping the quality of life.

For me, it's always been important to have the live band be one thing, and the recorded band be kind of another thing.