“Bands today have to learn their craft by putting the hard work in that we did when we were young performers.”

What a scandal, if I die. Yeah, I’m gonna kill myself, get a little headline news.

It seems to me, sorry seems to be the hardest word.

If you write great songs with meaning and emotion, they will last for ever because songs are the key to everything.

Unless you show off you’re not going to get noticed.

Talk to each other. Never go to bed when you’re angry with each other. Lady Antonia Frasier who was married to Harold Pinter said they never went to bed on an argument.

I’m a juvenile product of the working class, who’s best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

I think Jesus was a compassionate, super-intelligent gay man who understood human problems.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

The worst thing you can do to a child, and I’ve seen it happen so many times, is the silver spoon.

Love is the key we must turn, truth is the flame we must burn.

I had to learn how to function as a human being. And I really enjoyed that process.

Fame attracts lunatics.

You don’t know being a performer what kind of performance you’re going to give. You know you can give a certain quality of performance, but as I grow older I’m much more content in my own skin because when I come offstage, I have a balance in my life.

Music has healing power. It has the ability to take people out of themselves for a few hours.

You should never take more than you give.

We live in an age, in an era where there is so much negativity, there is so much violence in the world, there is so much unrest and people are at war, that I wanted to promote the word love and red signifies love.

I’ve been a fortunate man in life, nothing has come easily.

If you’re passionate about something then it will definitely work out for you.

I really believe that you have to earn things. I don’t feel comfortable unless I have worked really hard.

The future belongs to those who prepare for it today.

Only hard work, good principles, and a foundation of relationships that are built upon shared goals – not envy – gets you to the top.

Don’t let society be the judge of how hard you have worked – if you do, you will always underachieve!

Work hard. play hard. be kind.

Don’t tell me it doesn’t work. Torture works. Okay, folks?