When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

Just do what you like to do, and do it all the time.

It's faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living.

Education is provide enlightenment for one's life.

Any idiot can face a crisis-it's day to day living that wears you out.

If you’re a person struggling to eat and stay healthy you might have heard about Michael Jordan or Muhammad Ali, but you’ll never have heard of Bill Gates.

Be about ten times more magnanimous than you believe yourself capable of. Your life will be a hundred times better for it.

You persist in this romantic vision of what it is to be a vampire, but despite my best efforts to curb it I have a taste for blood.

A wise man neither suffers himself to be governed, nor attempts to govern others.

Swinging at daisies is like playing electric guitar with a tennis racket: if it were that easy, we could all be Jerry Garcia. The ball changes everything.

When I was a kid, I really liked playing chess, which is pretty geeky; I just enjoyed it - thinking, exercising my mind. And I found computers to be like an eight-hour day chess game.

What do you spend $200 million on, with a film? I can't wrap my brain around that one.