Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

Life is cold

But society is ignorant and venomous, devoid of any trace of insight or understanding. It exalts knavery, and worships stupidity. It crucifies the intelligent, and puts the diseased in dungeons.

You have two options. work on someone else's ideas and make some money or generate ideas make them work and become a millionaire.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

I was never invited to the White House.

I had a number of teachers who hated me. I didn't do well in school.

It's extremely seldom that anybody wants me to change what I've written about them. Generally I portray them in a good light, if they're friends

I saw on HBO they were advertising a boxing match "It's a fight to the finish". That's a good place to end.

Some things are just for private. It's like people thinking I'm cold or this or that. It's unfortunate, but I don't need strangers to know that I'm warm. I don't need strangers to know the real me.

The place one's in, though, doesn't make any contribution to peace of mind: it's the spirit that makes everything agreeable to oneself.