Writing a song is actually quite easy. Writing a good one is very, very difficult.

Humor is an amazing way to talk people down off a ledge.

If you're driving, don't forget your car.

Music and soccer. They would be my two major passions.

That's why 60,000 people go ape when the Stones play 'Satisfaction.' The songs are part of their legacy, and you fall back in love with them over the years.

The Vatican takes your breath away.

When we try to write a pop song, we go for standard pop arrangements, even to the point where we will go to the key change at the end, which is really cheesy.

Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

I wanted to write a song that's known to the world as a classic, stadium-rock anthem.

We just wanted to put a smile on people's faces. That's all we ever wanted to do.

Any idiot who knows five chords can bang a song together. But it's probably going to be rubbish.

You ought to travel on your own path.

True maturity is in attitude and a true attitude is maturity.

The face of poverty is a mixture of sincerity and sadness!

You will be blessed the moment you realize you already are.

We've learned that Donald Trump can say whatever he wants and switch it a minute later, and nobody really cares.

An agreement of rash men (a conspiracy).

Your wedding will not be what you think it is going to be, no matter what you think it is going to be.

Pro-active good governance aims beyond short-term requirement keeping in mind the long-term needs such as the use of clean technology and in preparedness and mitigating climate change fallout etc.

Some things get written more quickly than others, but I can't really measure degrees of difficulty.

The inevitability of gradualness.