There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

My heart dances with joy and sings with passion when it hears the music of love.

Necessity used to be the mother of invention, but then we ran out of things that were necessary.

Actually the years when I was playing totally un - well, they were just roles that just went by the board, you wouldn't want to know. But anyway, I'm glad I had that chance to build my craft.

I had no idea how greedy my heart really was.

I was isolated but not ostracized, ignored but not abused.

It is hard to say whether doctors of law or divinity have made the greater advances in the lucrative business of mystery.

May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.

As an actor, you've got to maintain a bit of mystery and at least part of your private life, otherwise the game is up.

There are always, of course, job losses of a cyclical nature in a recession.

We are full of rhythms . . . our pulse, our gestures, our digestive tracts, the lunar and seasonal cycles.