My favourite thing in the world, apart from my wife and kids, is writing songs. Ever since I was a kid.

The most interesting ideas definitely come at night.

Without music I would never, ever have travelled anywhere.

Invariably, guitar players that go solo make really bad records.

It broke my heart when my first band split up. I was 25 and we'd been together since we were 15. But it had to happen. There was a point when I knew I had to move on.

If what distinguishes us from other species is speech, then poetry, which is the supreme linguistic operation, is our anthropological - indeed, genetic - goal.

I think our insecurities are our biggest challenges, and we all have them. Trust me, I've got plenty of my own.

I always like to see a person stand up to a golf ball as though he were perfectly at home in its presence.

AS for all those mistakes I make - they are on purpose - to teach you how to deal with them

Both men and women are fallible. The difference is, women know it.

There is no formula. There are only confirmations to formulas which one has already discovered oneself.

Leading is not hypothetical debating; it's about solving real problems.

There is never a lack of subject matter; just absence of creativity.

I'm a comic book fan.

It is some relief to weep; grief is satisfied and carried off by tears.