I meditate and I also think about meditation. Which is funny. I think about Maharishi, about just the idea of meditating. It gives me something.

I think in terms of emotions. And feelings. So sometimes what I say may not always be clear. But creatively, there's a lot to be said for that way of thinking.

I still believe that something is right only when it feels right.

If there's not love present, it's much, much harder to function. When there's love present, it's easier to deal with life.

You say how you feel, and songs don't lie. Songs are the most honest form of human expression there is--there's nothing that lies about a song.

Summer means happy times and good sunshine. It means going to the beach, going to Disneyland, having fun.

I believe that music is God's voice.

The idea of taking a song, envisioning the overall sound in my head and then bringing the arrangement to life in the studio...well, that gives me satisfaction like nothing else.

I'm not a genius. I'm just a hard-working guy.

Every now and then I hear voices in my head, but not very clear. I can't understand what they are saying. It's a mental illness. I have been diagnosed as a manic depressive.

Humor - it helps to make the vibe better - it loosens up the vibrations.

Haste is from the Devil.

Some women are just better at knowing what they want, which saves them the trouble of wasting too much time on the wrong guy.

You're cute when you're worried. Your eyebrows get all scrunched together.

Truth never dies but lives a wretched life.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

I would always sing it (Take Me Out To The Ballgame) because I think it's the only song I knew the words to.

When you praise someone you call yourself his equal.

The most unknown, unused and unrecognised tool of the human mind, is the recognition that attitude is always a choice

For every snake, there is a ladder; for every ladder,a snake

What I've always said was, hang in there, let me write what I want to write, and you'll probably like it.