What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

I don't do anything in order to cause trouble. It just so happens that what I do naturally causes trouble. I'm proud to be a troublemaker.

Women are to be valued for so much more than their sexuality. We aren’t merely objects of desire.

I understand that we are actually complicated people but we are also dreadfully simple.

I don't believe in any kind of artistic snobbery or musical snobbery. You know, to me, the sexiest and the most spiritual words ever uttered in rock and roll are wop babaloo balop bam boom.

Maybe it was mean, but I really don't think so. You asked for the truth and I told you.

When you dishonor the the utter glory and majesty of black people, you lie. Your heart lies to you and you let it

I grew up in a situation of extreme abuse, but there was no chance to talk about it, so music became the escape if you like.

At some point the entire population of the earth is gonna have to look back at the kind of essence of spirituality which is basically caring about each other.

We have a tradition of passing our history orally and singing a lot of it and writing songs about it and there's kind of a calling in Irish voices when they're singing in their Irish accent.

When I kissed you, you didn't mind. I thought I tasted of too many cigarettes, but you tasted like wine.

Only time can reveal the future.

Paige had a sadness that was so desperate that it could not yet turn into anger.

Keeping it simple, you have a vision of what you are to become and a strategy for making that happen.

Rome is all things high and low. It is like God, it accommodates so much.

But if you must be clever, then be clever. Be brave. Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.

An idea is something you work on to make it work and a desire is much deeper in a way.

There is nothing wrong with having a good job, there is nothing wrong with having a nice house, there is nothing wrong with that. There is something wrong when that is your goal.

Parenting is a stage of life's journey where the milestones come about every fifty feet.

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

In the same way, the people whom I most abhor, I abhor them for elements that I abhor in myself.