There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like.

The safeguards of virtue are hateful to the evil disposed.

Here’s what I tell people now when they come to my shows: “First of all, thank you for stimulating the economy, or at least my economic package.”

I don't know any teenager with a positive attitude.

You're at the top of your game if you do comedy.

Genius is only a superior power of seeing.

As the actor, you just have to believe in what your character is doing in order to play them.

Do one thing every day you don't want to do.

There are all kinds of other things I could do, things I would probably like, but only acting would give me emotional fulfillment.

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.

Red wine with fish. That should have told me something.