Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

Girls are always running through my mind. They don't dare walk.

I definitely have a sexual ego thing. But if I'm suggestive, it's in a nice way. Luckily, no one's ever been hurt...a few girls have passed out, that's all.

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

I wasn't eating. I wasn't sleeping. All I was doing was cocaine. I stayed awake for about two weeks, locked in my bedroom. I went down from a 142 pounds to 110 pounds.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

In 1973 we moved to the British Isle of Man, and I put my first band together for one year, named Melody Fair.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

I grew up in a show business family, so we've always had a great sense of balance, being so close to my parents.

I have been to hell and back. I had a very, very bad nervous breakdown.

Even my older brothers' early success 10 years ago didn't change me since there was such an age difference.

If you think you're unable to be on the cover of Time magazine, make your business to be there.

Chuck Palahniuk asked which is worse: Hell or nothing. Here is my answer: Of course nothing! Because even in Hell, there is hope!

Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.

I'm a venture capitalist. I like to say my job is to help and support entrepreneurs. I can play a leadership role, but my organization can't be the leader.

For entertainment, a party bears no one in as much as those who are not there. ­

The framers, in their wisdom, designed the [political] system so that power's pretty disbursed.

Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.

We cannot rely upon the silenced to tell us they are suffering.

I like the anthology concept. I wish more shows would do it.

There is just no end to reality. You can keep going closer into it, but you never ever come out the other end.