There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

If you're driving, don't forget your car.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

Life is a book.

Nikki looks at me, confused. “What’s wro

Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.

Any event once it has occurred can be made to appear inevitable by a competent historian.

Each thing lives according to its kind; the heart by love, the intellect by truth, the higher nature of man by intimate communion with God.

That strange premature genius Chatterton has couched in one line the quintessence of what Voltaire has said in many pages: "Reason, a thorn in Revelation's side.

Even if I'm eating healthy, I let myself indulge with french fries. That's my favorite thing. You only live once!

You got to constantly be in character.

When I started you were more in touch with the people you were playing to. There wasn't the distance or the separation that there is now.

Nature I loved, and next to Nature, Art.