Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Maybe my greater fear should not be fear itself, but what I will lose should I submit to fear.

Every individual ought to travel on his or her own destiny path.

Be prepared to change yourself if you think there is a need to change your environment.

I'm just dandy, I got a bowl of chocolate pudding in my underpants!

Fit for kings, formal gardens afford an earthly Elysium and the odd impression that we mere men might actually control nature for a time.

When you once see something as false which you have accepted as true, as natural, as human, then you can never go back to it.

I did extensive, extensive recordings and made a classical CD-ROM set, which is still on the market. For ten years, it was by itself as the cream of the crop of samples.

Until God opens the next door, praise Him in the hallway.

I'm usually so in control, especially for YouTube videos.

Sometimes, to relieve stress, he would soak his feet in the toilet, a practice that was not as soothing for his collegues.