When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.

It's not the time in your life, it's the life in your time.

We struggled together, and sometimes, we struggled with one another... We took care of one another... In the end, we kept faith in each other.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

cause down the shore everything's all right

The best music is essentially there to provide you something to face the world with.

Someday girl, I don't know when, were gonna get to the place where we really want to go, and we'll walk in the sun. But til then, tramps like us, baby, we were born to run.

Someday we'll look back on this and it will all seem funny.

Poor man wanna be rich, rich man wanna be king, and a king ain't satisfied until he rules everything.

Misery, like yoga, is not a competitive sport

It's important to be active in the causes that are important to you... That's how we make changes in this world.

I have to live my books before I write them.

Remember, all the answers you need are inside of you; you only have to become quiet enough to hear them.

There is no shame in impulse.

You can go out and get anything you want if you work hard enough for it and believe in yourself.

Before you dismiss a beginner's work, remember how much you sucked when you started. You probably sucked worse, actually.

I find that when you read a script, or rewrite something, or look at something that's been gone over, you can tell, like rings on a tree, by how bad it is, how long it's been in development.

Come, dear heart. Lean on me and let us walk this path together.

A leader is an average, everyday person who is highly motivated.