The most frustrating thing for musicians who want to play stuff from the new album is when everyone goes out to buy a beer.

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.

One gets so used to one's own horrors, one forgets how they must seem to other people.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

If you are fully aligned with your soul it will be your pleasure, your joy to always move toward cooperation, toward sharing, toward reverence for life. You will not be torn.

Unless there be correct thought, there cannot be any action, and when there is correct thought, right action will follow.

Shooting stars are not stars at all. They re just rocks that enter the atmosphere and catch fire under friction. What we wish on when we see one is only a trail of debris.

I would love to embody the attitude of Iggy Pop or Keith Richards: a ballsy mentality. Stylistically, I love Vivienne Westwood - those capes! I'm obsessed.

You're either an Olympian or not in swimming.

What will you do with the time you have left?

There seems to be a strange affectation in authors of appearing to have done everything by chance.

Accumulate power in silence and become a dynamo of spirituality.