I've had a great metamorphosis in my life. I struggled for a number of years because I was identified with that image of the Seventies.

It's been the work that has carried me and I never wanted to rest on my laurels or go back and do what I done before.

It's not about the fame and the money because if you do good work all that stuff comes

My life has flourished in so many ways both personally and professionally that I can't ask for a better life.

I was silver-white by the time I was 35, but having grey hair makes me look washed out. My wife and son have both said that grey hair doesn't suit me because I have a boyish face.

I'm never going to retire and say, 'This is it. This is my last show.' I will not go on tour - I promised my wife and son no more than two weeks on the road.

I'm not saying that I won't tour again, but the chances are slim because my priorities are different now.

As a father, I do everything my dad didn't do. My son Beau's birth changed my life.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

I had a lot of very religious influences - Christian religious.

Thoroughbred racing is really my true passion. I'm living my dream.

The counselor says that with more time and more surgeries, I will begin to feel normal again. She says this with a mouth that can still smile. It’s so easy to be reassuring when you have lips.

It's time to move on to the next step in the psychedelic revolution. We've reached a certain point, but we're not moving any more.

Everything that is bad, the falling sickness - God save the mark - or the like, should be at its worst at the full moon. I suppose because it is the leader of the stars.

There is no happiness. There is only concentration.

Somewhere along the line I made the switch and was able to look at the bright side rather than the dark sida all the time. Now I look at everything I have and think how lucky I am.

Joy is prayer; joy is strength, joy is love. God loves a cheerful giver. The best way we can show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy.

[If] there is mercy in nature, it is accidental. Nature is neither kind nor cruel but indifferent.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month, Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

Oh, how everything that is suffered with love is healed again!

The important thing is to keep playing, to play against weak opponents and to play for big stakes.