Rules and regulations, who needs them. Open up the door, we can change the world.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

When I am looking for you, then in silence, your every atom is longing for me.

I do not know how to wish success to those whose Victory is to separate from us a large and noble part of our Empire. Still less do I wish success to injustice, oppression and absurdity.

A committee is a group of the unprepared, appointed by the unwilling to do the unnecessary.

An editorial writer might consult a reporter to see what she thinks, if it is what she covers. But they are entirely independent.

Human beings were behaving as human beings and not as cogs in the capitalist machine.

I conceive of God, in fact, as a means of liberation and not a means to control others.

Paradox likes contradictions with exits.

You really can change. Your reality is based on the way you think.

Most men who rail against women are railing at one woman only.

Love is a verb. Love – the feeling – is the fruit of love, the verb. So love her. Sacrifice. Listen to her. Empathize. Appreciate. Affirm her.