One day I'll wake up and I'll have 10 or 12 songs and think, 'Oh that sounds like it could be a record.

Please forgive me, I know not what I do. Please forgive me, I can't stop loving you.

Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience...When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn't matter what the genre; nowadays, it's so much harder than it ever was.

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you'll search no more.

There's not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure.

I like the idea of helping people help people.

I've only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don't trust my head, I don't trust my heart, I trust my gut.

We were just killing time, we were young and restless, and needed to unwind. There ain't nothing that lasts forever, forever.

The danger of the past was that men became slaves. The danger of the future is that men may become robots.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

Don't judge those, who are doing something bad, judge these, who told them do do that.

My mom was a single mom, and she had enough on her plate. I knew when I was doing something I wasn't supposed to, and I tried to keep her from finding out about it. I did a pretty good job of that.

I don't regret anything I've ever done; as long as I enjoyed it at the time

Sadness is poetic. You're lucky to live sad moments. When you let yourself be sad, your body has antibodies. It has happiness that comes rushing in to meet the sadness.

Learn about writing from reading. That is the right way to do it.

The new fashion is to talk about the most private parts of your life; other fashion is to repent of your excesses and to criticize the drugs that made you happy in the other times.

Last night my teacher taught me the lesson of Poverty: Having nothing and wanting nothing.

Everything that rises sets, and everything that grows, grows old.