I went to engineering school, I went to physics class. I said, 'Screw this, I don't want to be here. I'd much rather be at a club playing music.

I don't tap dance, and I don't think you can learn to tap dance in three weeks at my ripe old age.

I know my choices will be creative so long as I follow my heart.

You only go from nowhere to everywhere once. Let's enjoy it!

Back in the day you wanted your albums to have a theme, and 'Sports' theme was really a collection of singles. It was really a record for its time.

The power of love is a curious thing, make one man weep, make another man sing. Change a hawk to a little white dove, more than a feeling, that's the power of love.

It's true, I do like cheering people up.

When you get in the pocket, there is a place where the music begins to play itself. When you can find that spot, it's the best feeling in the world.

Today, it's very tempting to create songs by cutting and pasting in the studio.

Don't miss understand me, I'm not getting soft, all I want is a couple days off.

I am a Bay Area guy, no question.

Just when you think this war has taken everything you loved, you meet someone and realize that somehow you still have more to give.

The one person who's disappeared out of the business is the A&R man. Because the listener at home becomes the A&R man. He's the one who chooses what tracks he wants on the album. And that's cool.

So perfect — I’m right where I need to be!

I can't have composite characters. I can't attribute dialogue to someone based simply on my memory and not based on notes taken at the time that the words were spoken.

We forgive and forget. At least I forgive and he forgets.

Most modern painters work from a different source. They work from within.

I don't know why I always liked aerospace engineering. I was in the 10th grade when I figured that's what I wanted to do.

Love mistakes, as it’s us that receives blessings from them in the end.

This planet is our home. If we destroy the planet, we've destroyed our home, so it is fundamentally important.

There is an unfortunate disposition in a man to attend much more to the faults of his companions which offend him, than to their perfections which please him.