They're pretty good actually, Hall & Oates. I gotta give them credit. They got a lot of toe-tappers.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

Don't tell a lie to be loved, speak the truth to be hated.

I know, logically, about the fact that there are fans of my work in America, but it's hard for that feeling to sink in.

What you will be in your next life is the sum total of the realizations that you have had in this lifetime.

If those who hold influence over others fail to lead toward the spiritual uplands, then surely the path to the lowlands will be well worn.

The laws of physics that we regard as 'sacred,' as immutable, are anything but.

Ask what's possible, not what's wrong. Keep asking.

I'm a discursive thinker, so quotation has played an active role in the structure and content of my books from the beginning.

The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure.

In better times the religion of the tribe or state has nothing in common with the private and foreign superstitions or magical rites that savage terror may dictate to the individual.