People have often written about me, that I did this for this reason and that for that reason, and theyre usually 98 percent wrong.

The essential elements of singing are voice, musicianship, and story. It is the rare artist that has all three in abundance.

The thing you have to be prepared for is that other people don't always dream your dream.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Somewhere out there, beneath the pale moonlight, someone's thinking of me and loving me tonight.

Everywhere you go, there's a soundtrack. You can't really quite hear it. It's just a little out of the range of hearing.

When the night wind starts to sing a lonesome lullaby, it helps to think we're sleeping underneath the same big sky.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.

Ninety-nine percent of singing is listening and hearing, and so then 1 percent of it is singing.

I think musicians are always supportive of each other because they want the groove to keep going on. They just basically want to play music.

I think there's mind in nature. There's a power in nature, and there's a universal power that you'd better not ignore.

Humanity must forgive 'Humanity', for only then can we be Humane.

Every great building once begun as a building plan. That means, sitting in that building plan on the table is a mighty structure not yet seen.It is the same with dreams.

Better to be king for a night than a schmuck for a lifetime.

I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.

There are two things you should remember when dealing with parallel universes. One, they're not really parallel, and two, they're not really universes

What lies before us and what lies behind us are small matters compared to what lies within us. And when we bring what is within out into the world, miracles happen.

I don't know if I'll ever do it again or not, but frankly I don't really care.

Freud "interpreted" dreams by treating them as intellectual riddles whose details, once processed through free association, exposed hidden wishes.

Think not that your word and yours alone must be right.

Do you really miss anything that was worth watching at the MTV Awards?