“Music was my way of keeping people from looking through and around me. I wanted the heavies to know I was around.”

Don’t take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.

It’s a fairytale so tragic there’s no prince to break the spell. I don’t believe in magic, but for you I will.

Being an artist is this kind of occupation in which you have to make people care about your obsession.

Now everyone dreams of a love faithful and true, But you and I know what this world can do. So let’s make our steps clear so the other may see. And I’ll wait for you…should I fall behind wait for me.

Show a little faith there is magic in the night. You ain’t a beauty, but hey you’re alright, and that’s alright with me.

The first thing that I do when I come out every night is to look at the faces in front of me, very individually.

All people have is hope. That’s what brings the next day and whatever that day may bring. A hope grounded in the real world of living, friendship, work, family.

At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.

The school system only recognizes one type of intelligence. There are so many different types of intelligence.

Music doesn’t tell you where to go. It says, go find your own place. That’s what it told me.

The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

I’m ready to grow young again.

I’m ready to grow young again.

I’m ready to grow young again.

The light from the oncoming train focuses the mind.

To be honest, I’ve found so many more friends in the music industry than people I disagree with. I certainly haven’t been made to feel like an outsider.

I like music that is able to stir my soul. My music is a spiritual exercise

We wrote and recorded the ‘Bond’ song on a tour bus in Texas.

I love classical music. I love a lot of musicians playing together and the whole culture of that, whether it’s Indian or it’s Western.

She’s like turning on the radio and hearing a brand new song.

I sing in five or six different voices that are all part of me. Its not contrived.

It’s important for me to be with a musician or someone who has a creative mind.

The music that I listened to when I was growing up was the most important to me forever.