When you do a song new live on stage, it's kind of a bit weird until it gets worn in, you know, like oiled up a bit. It's still a little bit stiff until you really thrashed at it for a few weeks.

It was a great thrill just to know Roy Orbison, so to play, sing, write hit songs with him and have him in The Traveling Wilburys was beyond my wildest dreams!

There's not much you can do with a ukulele that doesn't sound happy.

I try to find nice chord changes, that's how I love to start, and then I start trying to knock it into a song, knock it into shape.

Yes, I love to play drums and bass and guitar and piano. Those are the main instruments I play. That is it.

There are a million people who can come up with little bits. The hard work is making those bits into something.

The hairs stand up on the back of my neck at certain music.

At the end of the day I have to please myself. And I've made a record to please myself.

Live shows are fun - sometimes. But you have to practice for months on end.

Old music is the same as new music - it's just a different way of delivering it.

It was so simple in the old days. You put out an album, people promoted it, it got in the charts, and you had a hit.

After another long silence, bit by bit, realisation dawned upon Edmund and he became even paler than Hecate herself which was, in itself, a fantastic achievement. Adele Rose, Awakening.

To live, to TRULY live, we must be willing to RISK. To be nothing in order to find everything. To leap before we look.

We are the unknown, he says, and you will join us.

Visiting Saturn sounds like a lot of fun but you will die!

Adventures are to the adventurous.

As if God's gonna let mankind destroy the planet with SUV's. It's silly, when you think about it.

I'm no fan of what I've seen health insurance companies do.

When I was a kid, my mother told me that if you could not be a good loser, then there's no way you could be a good winner.

When you're with somebody for some years, sometimes you need a break from 'em. You grow in different directions.

The cherries' only fault: the crowds that gather when they bloom