You're just like crosstown traffic, so hard to get through to you.

When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.

Technically, I'm not a guitar player, all I play is truth and emotion.

Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.

You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven.

Butterflies and zebras And moonbeams and fairy tales That's all she ever thinks about Riding with the wind.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.

Sometimes you want to give up the guitar, you'll hate the guitar. But if you stick with it, you're gonna be rewarded.

Knowledge talks, wisdom listens.

I've been imitated so well I've heard people copy my mistakes.

Every success is built on the ability to do better than good enough.

To exist, the triangle demands three complementary elements: love, power and danger. Mixed incautiously, these elements, like those in physics, are volatile and potentially explosive.

The best kind of praise is intelligent praise.

I know God can cut it (popularity) off in a minute.

I just don't think I'm an ideological filmmaker in any way. I don't know how anyone could see anything I've done and see that.

I always knew that someday I would once again feel the grass under my feet and walk in the sunshine as a free man.

Well, it'll always be disco/electro-pop. That's what I first wanted to do when I started out as a musician in 1977. It's only ever been dance-pop that I've wanted to do.

Everybody by your side ain't on your side

Don't be an examiner, be the interested inquirer.

Though I weigh only 120 pounds, when I'm mad, I weigh a ton.