There is no victory without pain.

Anyone who imagines they can work alone winds up surrounded by nothing but rivals, without companions. The fact is, no one ascends alone.

When you've suffered a great deal in life, each additional pain is both unbearable and trifling.

Fear of losing is what makes competitors so great. Show me a gracious loser and I'll show you a perennial loser.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

The people I go after are the false experts, those who do not accept the limits of their knowledge.

I wish I was a phone machine. I wish if I saw somebody on the street I didn't want to talk to I could just go, "Excuse me, I'm not here right now, If you just leave a message, I can walk away."

We live, not as we wish to, but as we can.

I have been playing a lot of keyboards, especially in the last five or six years. I suppose it gives you more scope than the guitar, although it does tend to make you write a different way.

The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

I don't take criticism lying down.