I've always written in a free, unencumbered way.

All your travelling is together, you eat together, you're on stage as a band together, when you get to the sound-check the band and the crew are all together.

Classical, Romantic, and Baroque music, that's what I really like.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

I am constantly being told that I have been a big influence for many people, including other musicians.

Right from day one, you know when you've written a good song.

Inspiration doesn't really work like that - you're not looking out for it. Inspiration is something that tends to capture you rather than you capture it.

It's a very organic process, and it has a specific order to it. I love to write, and once you've written, then you arrange. After the arrangement, you record it, and then you tour it.

This band - because this is myself on electric and acoustic guitars - we've done three tours together now and I really, really like it which is why I did the DVD as well.

My mother bought a piano, put it in the front room, and I just started writing my songs.

Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.

Keep cool. Anger is not an argument.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

Loving people the way Jesus did, means living a life of constant interruptions. Bring it.

I'm still around artists. I don't have anymore wall space. And I don't have the money to collect anymore, the prices are outrageous.

That's what they should teach us here. How girls' brains work... It would be more useful than divination, anyway.

Humanity in its basic form is co-humanity.

I do feel, in my dreamings and yearnings, so undiscovered by those who are able to help me.

I prepare for the next fight and I train for that opponent. I'm thinking about Dan Henderson and not thinking about the championship.

Anything said off the cuff has usually been written on it first.

If you're fascinated by America, you'll be fascinated by family.