I think people listen to whatever they think is good.

I like to keep my feet on the sidewalk.

If you're trying to do something different, you can't ask someone to help, because they'll want to make it not different.

I think more people need to make out.

Sometimes you actually get caught in the web of things where people are talking about... what kind of breakfast cereal you like.

I got into guitar because no parent will buy their eight-year-old kid drums, unless they're divorced and trying to get back at their wife.

I write about my life and the lives of people around me and situations, and the idea's for each record to try to make you a better person, to understand the life that you lead more.

I think the notion of understanding each other is a relief. It's not a thing you get with everyone you hang out with.

I think music is a selfish masturbatory event - for the listener, the maker, the candlestick...maker.

I break my back for music because it's something that I love, but I'm not going to break my back for a bank. I wouldn't want to be an ATM repairman; there are some things that just aren't worth it.

I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.

We gain knowledge from education we gain wisdom from knowledge and experience.

The ear is the avenue to the heart.

I have found far greater enthusiasm for science in America than here in Britain. There is more enthusiasm for everything in America.

I am drawn to Christ but I have real problems with the Catholic Church.

We were raised to believe in books, music, and nature.

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

No one knows, the heart of a child, how it grows until it is too late.

My daughter was asked by a little old lady in a London hotel restaurant what her daddy did. She answered, “He’s a pirate” - I was very proud of that answer.

People who are strangers to liquor are incapable of talking about literature.