If we ever meet in real life, we can have a conversation. But you should go and live your real life and I'll go and live mine.

There is a monumental difference between being alive and living. You should never settle for the first.

If we all can figure out how to work together then we are the embodiment of salvation for our entire planet. We have the capabilities of it. That's the gist of it.

You can say something stupid with an incredible heartfelt sentiment and for some reason, it might be insanely powerful.

It's hard to know if what you do is actually working for anyone else or not. There's so much music out there. Why would someone ever listen to what I do?

I never think anything's finished. It's really not. Recording is only just a moment in time. It's as good as you can do it until then.

No one holds the power. Just because they might give you a bit of money every now and then doesn't mean that they have the right to change what you do.

Maybe 80 percent of what we conceive to be a song idea or the meaning of a song is not exactly what the artist meant most of the time. It's not bad - people can take what they want from it.

I don't mind throwing something away. It should be your best or it should be what you want people to hear and something that's good for people.

LA is an intense city. I was probably a bit too sensitive. I didn't have any friends so I was keeping pretty low key. I just whipped myself up into a bit of an emotional frenzy.

I change lyrics to the songs all the time, too. I don't know if it matters in a lot of ways because you can take what you want from it.

The supposedly immaterial soul, we now know, can be bisected with a knife, altered by chemicals, started or stopped by electricity, and extinguished by a sharp blow or by insufficient oxygen.

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector's item.

Civilized countries generally adopt gold or silver or both as money.

Power should be a check on power.

You can always find the sample that covers what you're hearing, but barely...it allows me to really concentrate on words.

John Hughes loved improvisers.

Absolutely. There are a 1000 better coaches in the cities, but I'm the best in the country.

Children take in more information than we'd like to believe.

You become a star not because of your title; you become a star because you are adding star value to the company

I was still 15 when I met John Lennon at a village fete in Woolton, in Liverpool.