What do we care, if the world is a joke? We'll give it a big kiss, we'll give it a poke. Death wears a big hat cause he's a big bloke.

I'm just the mere shadow of my former selfishness. I crave the silhouette of your kiss.

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

I feel like a juggler running out of hands.

I can't say anymore than I love you. Anything else would be a waste of breath.

Don't wear your heart on your sleeve when your remarks are off the cuff.

The radio is in the hands of such a lot of fools tryin' to anesthetize the way that you feel.

And I don't feel any form of music is beyond me in the sense of that I don't understand it or I don't have some love for some part of it.

Women hear rhythm differently than men.

Maybe I just never learned my harmony part, because what everybody says sounds odd to them sounds perfectly natural to me.

Males of all species are made for wooing females, and females typically choose among their suitors.

There is nothing more harrowing than a deadly hush with the feel of a great noise around it

Where the writing takes place doesn’t matter to a publisher, but it matters a great deal to the author.

Each step of the way, I'm learning. When I leave an interview, I learn whether I feel, 'Oh, that was nice, ' or that made me feel like a little piece of me was taken.

Alcoholism plus criminality plus whatever caused both in the first place form a combination that is very nearly happy-ending-proof.

Rock music was never written for or performed for conservative tastes.

There's so much knowledge to be had that specialists cling to their specialties as a shield against having to know anything about anything else. They avoid being drowned.

Democracies don't go to war.

Distrust your judgment the moment you can discern the shadow of a personal motive in it.

Some people are a little bit better than others, some people are great, some people are superior. It depends on the level of effort.