I've got a small, loyal audience, which is great. And I appreciate that. They're there for me every time.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

People can't really sympathize with you properly when you've woken them up

A man is indeed a city, and for the poet there are no ideas but in things.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.

Like snowflakes, the human pattern is never cast twice.

Nature is the true revelation of the Deity to man. The nearest green field is the inspired page from which you may read all that it is needful for you to know.

I think it is rather 'unsexy' to go under the knife and modify your appearance.

Every dog has like me the impulse to question, and I have like every dog the impulse not to answer.

There are no conditions to which a man cannot get accustomed, especially if he sees that everyone around him lives in the same way.

What Sri Chinmoy does is God-given! He has a tremendous, a fantastic creative urge.

Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.