It seems like everyone's got an agenda, and the agenda seems to be selling magazines or air time with sensational stories.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

You are only as big as your experiences.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

The soul is the weariest part of the body.

Power doesn't equal worth. Wisdom is a far greater virtue.

Life gets boring with only humans to talk to.

Every actor in his heart believes everything bad that's printed about him.

Charisma is a sign of the calling. Saints and pilgrims are defiantly moved by it.

In motorsports we work in the grey areas a lot. You're trying to find where the holes are in the rule book.

Simply paying attention allows us to build an emotional connection. Lacking attention, empathy hasn't a chance.

We take less pains to be happy, than to appear so.

In portraits, the grace and, we may add, the likeness consists more in taking the general air than in observing the exact similitude of every feature.

In theater, you have a rehearsal period and you know just who to be.