People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

A heart that hurts is a heart that works.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I don't really care about money. I find money boring and accounting boring, so I'm probably not going to ever make a lot of money.

I tend to fall for the archetypal, talented, charismatic rock boy.

As long as there are religions, there are going to be people who are hiding their rottenness behind the veil of religion.

If you want to achieve things in life, you've just got to do them, and if you're talented and smart, you'll succeed.

The way I see it, all the popular singers are strippers.

Once I picked up an electric guitar, I lost interest in piano, and I just wanted to rock. I studied piano for so long, I got burned out on it.

It makes me feel good to have some comforting effect on someone that needs comfort.

I'm not a very good advice-giver.

You're born to change history

Your desire to make art -- beautiful or meaningful or emotive art -- is integral to your sense of who you are.

The world may not care about you! Cope with this fact! Stand strong like a rock! Keep walking

It was at that moment, that even though she'd thought it before, Finley realized that Emily was a bloody genius.

I am sorry to say there is too much point to the wise crack that life is extinct on other planets because their scientists were more advanced than ours.

Love, as wonderful and horrible as it is, has at its center a kind of pitiful humor.

A book may be as great a thing as a battle.

Now let me say that Matt Busby was a great manager and Manchester United wouldn't be where they are without him. He was a god at the club, but he wasn't a god to me. Football is like that sometimes.

True love means you love the real person, not an ideal that you have in your head and superimpose over them. That's illusion and lies to me.

To be honest, producing records interests me less at the moment and I really don't want to get involved in album projects that are going to take up a lot of time