There are certain things people always bring up with me. The accident. The drugs. And how tight my pants were.

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.

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

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.

Fantasy is a reaction to the constraints of reality.

People said that there was one law for the rich and one law for the poor, but it wasn't true. There was no law for those who made the law, and no law for the incorrigibly lawless.

I've learnt something from every failure. The products I helped design at the first two companies I worked for were utter failures. But now I know why.

A man's wife is his compromise with the illusion of his first sweetheart.

How much happier you would be, how much more of you there would be, if the hammer of a higher God could smash your small cosmos.

God did not give you the spirit of cowardice.

We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

Running provides an outlet for my mind to relax and my peace to be still.

God's precepts are light to the loving, heavy to the fearful.