Well, a lot of successes come by mistake..

Shoot the bad guys and I'll gladly sing a tune for you..

You are only as big as your experiences..

Sing the song or keep it inside..

I suffer from manic-depressive disorder, and I've chosen not to take medication for it. Because of that, every once in a while I go through manic epi….

When I'm not completely loaded, it's a much more vulnerable place. I can feel the music, I can feel the energy and I really have to put it out there.….

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush..

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides..

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated..

Who you are as a performer is one thing, but when you're making records, you're dealing with musicians' tastes, their goals, their wants, their needs….

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to..

It's a beautiful thing to be that committed to something that you get so much joy from, but it is like a sick addiction, because sometimes it's incre….

I'd sell one of my songs for any car commercial in the world that paid enough money. But to stay in the Top Ten for weeks on end when I'm in my for….

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted..

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb..

It doesn't matter what kind of problems a family is having; it should always stay in the family..

Music, as many people have said, is the universal language. Of course points are made which make you think about things, but ultimately it makes you ….

When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure..

Great classic music that I've been turned on to has not only inspired and influenced me, but it has had an effect on my songwriting..

I see love, like art, as an obsession. Maybe that's an overly romantic view of human existence, but I'm an overly romantic human being. If love, like….

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them..