It's more difficult to write a song about having your heart ripped out of your chest while you're in love. Because it lacks honesty. And the honesty comes through in the music, it really does.

You know it's never too late to shoot for the stars regardless of who you are

The ability for a woman to orally satisfy somebody in a rock band, that's important to a rock 'n' roll musician.

I put my own d*ck in my mouth. I was 14 and much more flexible at the time. It was soft and required a lot of pulling. I really wanted that case of beer.

It's okay to have faith in something that you can't see or touch.

I honestly think that with every song you release you have to keep winning your own fans over again.

I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.

There is a mathematical formula to why you got famous. It isn’t some magical thing that just started happening.

Happy wife, happy life. I think every man learns that quick. Really quick.

I guess if you split the difference between the U.K. and the U.S., you would get Canada. But that's just due to proximity. Just because of distance, we get a lot more cultural spillover from America.

I would call myself more spiritual than religious.

A few stars were approaching and in their brightness I glimpsed a fragment of your vanished soul – cheerful and frivolous, unforgettable.

The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.

Journalism is the protection between people and any sort of totalitarian rule. That's why my hero, admittedly a flawed one, is a journalist.

I think that the United States has always been most effective when it is leading both from power and principle.

I told them [the producers] I couldn't compound the lie that Black fathers don't care about their children. I was proud of the family life I was able to introduce to television.

I'm a big fan of domino masks, like Zorro, or Robin. You could put a domino mask on anything, and it becomes a superhero. You put a domino mask on a milkman, and he becomes, like, Super Milkman.

I would not give one moment of heaven for all the joy and riches of the world, even if it lasted for thousands and thousands of years.

I don't understand if you get caught in a fight, but take it out on a room, how that implies some psychiatric disorder.

The best men are not consistent in good-- why should the worst men be consistent in evil.

Under the big political umbrella, a man is just like a leaf in the ocean, with no control of his destiny and does not have any choice.