I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

Excuse me while I kiss the sky.

Stay in love.

Let me be on my guard when the world puts on a loving face, for it will, if possible, betray me as it did my Master, with a kiss.

Charlie Everman understood, in the very depth of his soul, that God's mercies were new each morning.

I know that there are people out there who believe we should get rid of all guns.

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.

My wife and I, we like to ride where there's not much traffic.

We know that many of the apostles of Christ were killed. Eleven out of 12 met violent deaths when they were just talking about God and light.

I've always chosen all my own material; no one ever told me what to sing or how to sing it, but I've always been pressured intensely to use musicians outside of my band.

Never send a boy to do a man's work; send a woman.

My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him.