I try to be an open book now as much as possible.

Music is love, love is music, music is life, and I love my life. Thank you and good night.

And when no hope was left inside on that starry, starry night, you took your life as lovers often do. But I could have told you, Vincent, this world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

When people ask me what 'American Pie' means, I tell them it means I don't ever have to work again if I don't want to.

In a sense, 'American Pie' was a very despairing song but it can also be seen as very hopeful.

Starry, starry night, flaming flowers that brightly blaze, swirling clouds in violet haze reflect Vincent's eyes of china blue.

But people who really know me, know that I am not a bad boy at heart I am a big teddy bear.

It is pretty tough for a goalie when you look at it. You're always the last line of defense. If you let a goal in, you can't go to the bench and hide between the guys or anything

Do you believe in rock 'n roll? Can music save your mortal soul?

Drove my chevy to the levee but the levee was dry.

I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

Everyone will grow older, but few will grow wiser.

It is familiarity with life that makes time speed quickly. When every day is a step in the unknown, as for children, the days are long with gathering of experience . . .

In America you need a bodyguard to go out.

Devotion means constantly thinking about God or your teacher. It is like always thinking about your beloved.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

If people walk out of the movie and they think about it, then that's quite something.

Some mothers need happy children; others need unhappy ones-otherwise they cannot prove their maternal virtues.

I'm very comfortable being at home and keeping my head down, really. It's nice being invited to night clubs and stuff, which is nice once in a while, but I prefer to kind of keep to myself.

I really wanted to make it as a ballet dancer to make my mom proud. But it didnt happen.

I suppose all we can really share with people is a taste for the same kinds of weather.