It's good when someone says, "Would you write a song for this purpose," or "would you record a song for this purpose," or "would you help me realize this song," again, for this purpose.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

If they would all sleep all the time she wouldn't mind being their mother.

Pain and anger have to go somewhere. If we keep stuffing them down instead of processing them, we’ll end up either turning them inward, which isn’t good, or outward, which is no better.

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.

All art forms employ some means through which images become real.

With each new experience of letting God be in control, we gain courage and reinforcement for daring to do it again and again.

Man's fortune is usually changed at once; life is changeable. [Lat., Actutum fortunae solent mutarier; varia vita est.]

Do you realize that it is only in the gospel of Jesus Christ that you get the verdict before the performance?

Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.

There is no explanation for evil. It must be looked upon as a necessary part of the order of the universe. To ignore it is childish, to bewail it senseless.

No age is compelled to take its beauty from preceding epochs.