Songwriting is a very frustrating art form. You have to get on tape exactly what's playing inside your head

To give someone a piece of your heart, is worth more than all the wealth in the world.

Don't be afraid to be different.

If you want to make the world a better place, take a look at yourself, and make a change.

Never rush an emotion; everything in life has a rhythm, it is the pauses and silences that speak the truth.

Heal the World, make it a better place, for you and for me and the entire human race, there are people dying, if you care enough for the living, make a better place for you and for me.

No one should judge what I've done with my life, not unless they've been in my shoes every horrible day and every sleepless night.

The deeper I go into myself, the stronger I become, because I realize that my real self is much bigger than any fear.

I don't care if the whole world is against you or teasing you or saying you are not gonna make it. Believe in yourself, no matter what.

Magic is easy if you put your heart into it.

Music is the soundtrack to life. It plays the melody of our being.

The best course was to buy a house across a road from a cemetery and look at it every morning. Reminding yourself where it all ended anyway you'd never get upset about anything again.

I think there are different ways of being rigorous, and I am asking people to be as rigorous in their pleasure as in their criticism.

If you have a beautiful story, it has to have conflict. If you don't have conflict, it can't be a good story.

I don't play anything but the blues, but now I could never make no money on nothin' but the blues. That's why I wasn't interested in nothin' else.

I don't listen to music when I'm writing, but I often do when I'm reworking, editing or when I need to relax.

Drinking spirits cannot cause spiritual damage.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

Behaviour is the mirror in which we can display our image.

I'm not afraid of death. I'm going home.

Unacceptable, maybe. But not unthinkable. Nothing's unthinkable once somebody's thought it.