“There’s a desire in me to express something – to match what I hear in my head.”

Up until I became a father, it was all about self-obsession. But then I learned exactly what it’s all about: the delight of being a servant.

You can’t mastermind everything. You’ll go crazy. Just show up and play.

It sounds strange for me to be saying this, but I’ve come around to the idea that sex really is for procreation.

Only ask and you will get what you are needing, the rest is up to you.

Before you accuse me, take a look at yourself.

The point of being at home is to be with my family as much as possible.

Every time you pick up your guitar to play, play as if it’s the last time.

Given the choice between accomplishing something and just lying around, I’d rather lie around. No contest.

The music scene as I look at it today is a little different from when I was growing up. The percentages are roughly the same – 95 percent rubbish, 5 percent pure.

I got a problem, can you relate? I got a woman calling love hate.

Lately I’ve been running on faith.

For me there is something primitively soothing about this music, and it went straight to my nervous system, making me feel ten feet tall.

I often enjoy singing in an acoustic setting more than an amplified one.

This moment in time, on this tour, you know, I’m discovering a lot of new things. And to be 45 and doing that, it’s a mixture of pleasure and pain, I can assure you.

All along this path I tread, my heart betrays my weary head, with nothing but my love to save, from the cradle to the grave.

Yeah, it is, because it’s a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That’s what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.

What do you want meaning for? Life is desire, not meaning.

Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

Don’t fool yourself, my dear. You’re much worse than a bitch. You’re a saint. Which shows why saints are dangerous and undesirable.

All people on the planet are children, except for a very few. No one is grown up except those free of desire.

You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Whatever my individual desires were to be free, I was not alone. There were many others who felt the same way.

Education is teaching our children to desire the right things.