The best holiday I ever had was the first one I went on without my parents, when I was 17.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

If you're driving, don't forget your car.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

The open forgiveness in her eyes, the uncensored love, terrified me.

There were so many wrongs piling up on both sides, so much of the past being dragged into the present, that living there was like carving the story of your life on to a sepulchral monument.

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome.

It's man's nature to abuse knowledge and power, be it in the realm of science, government, or Wall Street. Take God out of the picture, and you have real trouble.

I travel like a maniac. I travel more than anyone I know. I love learning the languages.

Photography is something you learn to love very quickly. I know that many, many things are going to ask me to have their pictures taken and I will take them all.

A woman loses a charm with every pin she takes out.

While There may be power in forgiveness, there is even more power in lobbing a Molotov cocktail through someone's dining room window.

If the Constitution can be used against one, it can be used against all.

Have you not heard it said full oft, A woman's nay doth stand for naught?