Seventy percent of what I write, I throw out. I can write very easily, but writing original things is the hard bit.

Being in a band is always a compromise. Provided that the balance is good, what you lose in compromise, you gain by collaboration.

Nothing's planned. Never say never.

We seem to be committing ourselves to an eye wateringly expensive railroad for the few. High speed rail plan is madness.

Everyone I talk to has a Genesis story to tell.

I have this pet thing about how global communications are moving so fast now, throwing information at you, making everything available to you, and yet I feel it's leaving us more and more isolated.

When I've finished one project, I start thinking about the next.

I would feel horrible to think I had put my name on a pistol permit and allowed someone to carry around a gun and they committed another crime.

I'm completely hooked on polo.

To become a leader through one’s merit karma is not a big deal. One should become a leader through his virtues [innate qualities].

To rise from the ashes only to have them rain on you from above.

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

I didn't come in here to argue with a woman with big hair

There's a demon in me, and he's still around. Without the dope, we have a bit more of a chat these days.

I enjoy doing different kinds of things. I just enjoy being not tied too much. I feel that I'm tied to myself as a kind of traditional musician and a singer, and the history that I have ties me down.

Learn to fail with pride - and do so fast and cleanly. Maximise trial and error - by mastering the error part.

Forced federal registration of U.S. citizens based on religious identity is fascism, period. Nothing else to call it.

A man must be master of his hours and days, not their servant.

What man's life is not overtaken by one or more of those tornadoes that send us out of the course, and fling us on rocks to shelter as best we may?