I wanted to be a writer. I still want to be a prose writer. I feel I am more temperamentally suited to that kind of life, although there are things I still want to do with music.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

You + Mesaw this...AMERICAThank you for finding America with me

My advice to writers just starting out? Don't use semi-colons! They are transvestite hermaphrodites, representing exactly nothing. All they do is suggest you might have gone to college.

I respect you as a person too much to respect your ridiculous beliefs.

If it were easy it would not be any fun.

Governments exist to protect the rights of minorities. The loved and the rich need no protection - they have many friends and few enemies.

Success depends on intuition, on seeing what afterwards proves true but cannot be established at the moment.

I've heard Eric Clapner, ... I think it was a wonderful thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that's the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!

Be for something and against nothing.

Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people.

If you're blessed enough to grow older, which is how I look at aging, there's so much wisdom to be gained from people who are celebrating the process with vibrancy and vigor and grace.