The joy of life is made up of obscure and seemingly mundane victories that give us our own small satisfactions.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Only the good die young.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Success will not come to you like a baby who came to his mother

Horrible the fate of the advice-giver in our culture: to repeat oneself in a thousand contexts until death, or irrelevance.            *I abjure advice-giver.

The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.

Who will observe the observers?

Manchester City are defending like beavers

We owned what we learned back there; the experience and the growth are grafted into our lives.

Now my record deal helps me to do things for free or give more time to my community than I could otherwise.

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That's the only thing that can save this country.

I think love is a really hard thing to define. I think it's multifaceted.

As long as you live, there's always something waiting; and even if it's bad, and you know it's bad, what can you do? You can't stop living.