Most frontmen are not born hams like David Lee Roth. We're more like Joey Ramone: awkward geeks who somehow find our place in the world on the stage.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

The words you say never live up to the words in your head.

Be yourself is all that you can do.

I'm not a lyric writer to make statements. What I enjoy doing is making paintings with lyrics, creating colorful images. I think that's more what entertainment and music should be.

And I'm lost behind The words I'll never find And I'm left behind As seasons roll on by

People don't realize how much fun it is to be depressed.

There's something about losing friends, particularly young people, where it's not something that you get over. I don't believe there's a healing process.

She gives the night its dreams.

What do you think Jesus would twitter, 'Let he who is without sin cast the first stone' or 'Has anyone seen Judas? He was here a minute ago.'

Everybody is influenced by someone.

Wolves go after a wounded deer, it is the nature of the beast.

You're a public menace. You shouldn't be allowed out on your own.

Following Simon's adventures is like being the pinball in an especially antic game, but it's well worth the wear and tear.

One hour of contemplation surpasses sixty years of worship.

Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...

The way to happiness is much, much easier to travel with people one can trust.

Solo artists are generally totally insane. Elton John? Slightly eccentric. George Michael? He's mad as custard.

Prayer is not logical, it is a mysterious moral working of the Holy Spirit.

When they say "Be yourself," which self do they mean?

Nonfiction is never going to die.