If I have an idea, I write it down, although I usually carry a little dictation machine with me because I'm too lazy to write

I love the idea of stepping out of the band situation into a solo world with no boundaries, no expectations, where nothing is out of bounds.

Around '75 when the recession hit, club owners started going to disco because it was cheaper for them to just buy a sound system than it was to hire a band.

Success is fickle, but creativity is a gift.

When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.

I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.

It was more fun trying to figure out I Want To Hold Your Hand than to take lessons. By this time I knew basic chords

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about

Songwriting is the other weight on the opposite side of the scale from touring. They balance me out creatively.

On acoustic guitar I tend to stay in the key of D for some reason. On electric guitar I keep basic: C, G, D, and A. The key of D minor is also real good for me.

I wrote songs all my life, where anyone wanted to hear them or not.

Peace is the highest religion. Peace is the glory of humanity.

Economies are supposed to serve human ends.. not the other way round. We forget at our peril that markets make a good servant, a bad master and a worse religion.

Neither acquiescence in skepticism nor acquiescence in dogma is what education should produce.

I worked a lot with Mark Frankel, and he was really just an incredibly tender soul. He liked his hair just so and his suit. He was a good-looking man, and he cared about looking together.

I look at the artistic process as like experiencing the world, channeling it through your personality and sending it back out there. That's the process.

A man marries one woman to escape from many others, and then chases many others to forget he's married to one.

Sometimes it's blood memory... not the blood your mother and father gave you... but that which stretches back two or three thousand years.

I've never felt like I needed to change. I've always thought, 'If you want somebody different, pick somebody else.'

You will leave now," said Grdankl the Strong. "Go! Do not be afraid! If you die, it is okay!

I can disappear into things very easily. But with acting, you have to be in the moment, and it gives me this incredibly fulfilling emotion: being really present.