I've been touring now since about '68. I was in Germany when the wall came down. Unfortunately I was in New York when 9/11 happened.

Europe is usually where I am usually galloping around.

Well, we have this place in Telluride, Colorado. Its somewhere I can just get away and relax and think.

You're everything I hope for. You're everything I need. You are so beautiful to me.

Oooh I get by with a little help from my friends.

Back then, I, most rockers loved Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Jerry Lee Lewis... you know in the '60s.

Don't go on American Idol, I think you'll spend the rest of your life living it down and I think it's getting kinda scary, isn't it?

Love lift us up where we belong.

For me, the focus are songs, which really get the audience moving.

I have one message for young musicians around the world. Stay true to your heart, believe in yourself, and work hard.

It's all a matter of hearing what I like and seeing if I can make it fit into my style.

Risk always brings its own rewards: the exhilaration of breaking through of getting to the other side the relief of a conflict healed the clarity when a paradox dissolves.

Twenty-five hundred years ago it might have been said that man understood himself as well as any other part of the world. Today he is the thing he understands least.

I thought, if I write a book that is not a retelling of Pride and Prejudice, it's not going to mean that I will not get any criticism. I might as well write the book that I want to write.

Desperation is the secret to my steady employment. I am not interested in downtime. I really like to keep working all the time and I always feel like I'm in the mail room of life; working up.

The greater part of the truth is always hidden, in regions out of the reach of cynicism.

What could be more interesting than thinking of mysterious happenings, finding the answers to intriguing questions, and making up new worlds?

I'm very serious about no alcohol, no drugs. Life is too beautiful.

In America it is not considered to be mentally ill when a woman advances on her prey in a discotheque setting with hardy cocktails present.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

For God to mend your broken heart you must give him ALL the pieces. You can't hold any back.