You've got to be hard, like the rock in that old rock & roll.

Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true. When will you realize... Vienna waits for you.

Musicians want to be the loud voice for so many quiet hearts.

I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity. It's something we are all touched by. No matter what culture we're from, everyone loves music.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

I am no longer afraid of becoming lost, because the journey back always reveals something new, and that is ultimately good for the artist.

Only the good die young.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

Some folks like to get away Take a holiday from the neighborhood. Hop a flight to Miami Beach Or to Hollywood But I'm talking a Greyhound On the Hudson River Line. I'm in a New York state of mind.

In an age of incompetence, I've been able to last in this crazy business. I actually know how to play my ax and write a song. That's my job.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

Don't worry. It's scientifically unlikely that the universe will explode into a million particles at any given moment.

With awareness and practice, even the most awkward people can learn how to be both fluid and purposeful in their bearing.

Is food a substitute for love? No, love is a substitute for food. And a pretty poor substitute at that.

When people cease to believe in God they don't believe in nothing they believe in anything.

If gold rusts, what then can iron do?

If ever again our nation stumbles upon unfunded paper, it shall surely be like death to our body politic. This country will crash.

Sometimes I don't know what to say; the pain never stops. The cloud never goes away, the rain never drops

One of my all-time favorite photographers is Irving Penn. I wish I could have watched him work.

We cannot birth our babies through sheer force of will. We need to learn the more subtle, the equally powerful, path of surrender.

I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.