I've done every kind of touring known to mankind. I've played the big and the small places.

Nothing changes, until you change. Everything changes, once you change

I love to sit on a mountain top and gaze. I don't think of anything but the people I care about and the view.

I am a complete mother's boy. I try to do everything with honour, respect and grace because the last thing I would want to do is hurt her.

Dad was a hypocrite. He could talk about peace and love to the world but he could never show it to his wife and son.

I had always thought of starting my own record company. I haven't regretted the decision - yet!

Anyone must remember that dad left when I was 3 years old. Mom and I lived out of the limelight. We lived a totally different life.

I've found constancy and balance between creativity and normality.

As much as I love music, in my mind, photography is what makes me the happiest - that's for sure.

I've been a philanthropist for all my life, and... I've had many involvements in humanitarian and environmental issues.

I find it upsetting to see the erosion of manners. It's very scary. Where are the 'pleases' and 'thank yous?'

The way you separate Reality from Imagination is the number of bandages you have to use.

People strive hardest to save face, when the beauty they value is solely extrinsic.

Between the record companies being the way they are and the fact that people can just download one song instead of buying a whole album, it's hard to make a good living nowadays.

Tis mean for empty praise of wit to write, As fopplings grin to show their teeth are white.

One of the best things about writing is how it redeems, not to mention recycles, all of one's prior experiences, including or perhaps especially the failures.

If you are pained by external things, it is not they that disturb you, but your own judgement of them. And it is in your power to wipe out that judgement now.

The reality is the cap-and-trade legislation offered by the Democrats amounts to an economic declaration of war on the Midwest by liberals on Capitol Hill.

Raising the minimum wage a lot across the board would make a big difference. It's not the only thing, but it's an indispensable part of solving the problem.

In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling the effervescence of relatively superficial preoccupations.

When God saw that people, instead of turning to God, were turning to the medicine cabinet, God made himself available in the medicine cabinet.