In 1977 we played America and Europe three times, and Japan - my marriage suffered as a result. My then wife took the kids to Canada to be near her parents.

Love can make you do things that you never thought possible

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

When I go on Japanese Airlines, I really love it because I like Japanese food.

Before you write - remember that every speech has something of 'you' in the writing. Don't take that away when you write. Be yourself. Be comfortable in your own skin.

Find a way to my heart, and I will always be with you.

I'm not a singer who plays a bit of drums. I'm a drummer that sings a bit.

Put your faith in what you most believe in.

The world is in your hands, now use it.

Take a look at me now, cause there's just an empty space. And you coming back to me is against all odds and that's what I've got to face.

When destiny calls you, you've got to be strong. I may not be with you, but you've got to move on.

She was his north star, the fixed point round which his world turned. For as long as his heart beat, or hers, he believed they would always share a destiny.

I am totally, absolutely romantic. When I broke up with a girl I would listen to the most heart-breaking music and make it worse. That's what girls do. I think I am a girl really.

I am struck here by the curious mixture of justice and injustice in our lives. We are blamed for our real faults but usually not on the right occasions.

I was really inspired by this feeling of mania, a caricature of myself that I look down upon and see negatively.

I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.

How could I have known that murder can sometimes smell like honeysuckle?

This is the worst drug epidemic I've seen in my lifetime.

It's ain't sad that I want my child to look like me? Every intelligent person wants their child to look like him.

My juices needed restoring. I needed a sabbatical from the record business.

Who are we to say that that was an odd way to do it? I don't think that it is God's purpose to make his intention absolutely obvious to us.