The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back.

We're captive on the carousel of time, we can't return we can only look behind.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark.

Chase away the demons, and they will take the angels with them.

We are stardust, we are golden and we've got to get ourselves back to the garden.

Freedom to me is a luxury of being able to follow the path of the heart, to keep the magic in your life. Freedom is necessary for me in order to create, and if I cannot create I don’t feel alive.

Depression can be the sand that makes the pearl. Most of my best work came out of it.

Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I've looked at love that way.

Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing.

All my battles were with male egos. I’m just looking for equality, not to dominate. But I want to be able to control my vision.

People that love quotes are those short on time, but long on big ideas.

Men and women tried each other on, casually, like suits, rejecting whatever did not fit.

Feelings don’t follow rules. Guilt does. Fear does. But attraction? No way.

The first rule of an expedition is that everyone should stick together.

To progress isn’t a little step, it’s a pretty dramatic lifestyle change.

They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

The real meditation is how you live your life.

Quebec's financial situation is serious. In terms of intensity, we're close to matching 1982 and 1997. We won't do the same things this time, but the problems we face today are about as pressing.

The soul has neither beginning nor end [They] come into this world strengthened by the victories or weakened by the defeats of their previous lives

Every great or even every very good writer makes the world over according to his own specifications.