Go ahead and do what you're doing..

I'd rather have happiness than money..

There are some good rules and there are some lousy rules..

Don't just count your days, make your days count..

I wanna be loved. I just wanna be loved..

Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong..

There is this thing about time that you can't see at the time you're at..

A lot of times you're just conditioned by what's around you..

My early influences were the Shadows, who were an English instrumental band. They basically got me into playing and later on I got into blues and jaz….

Is there life in other families?.

I always wear the same thing onstage..

When we were starting out, there was no "label" as progressive rock - it didn't exist ... so we were just a rock band..

Don't screech like that. You'll wake the dead..

I love punk, I love a lot of British Invasion bands, I love garage bands..

To play with a band all of the time, just about nightly, was good for me because I wrote lots of arrangements and I got a lot of my transposition and….

I'm a very conceptual writer..

It's OK to not be OK - just don't stay there..

I'd rather work to live than live to work..

I think there are plenty of good bands out there, but the great bands aren't affected by what's going on around them, trends and all that and competi….

We're endangered by our own success..

Never say, "I tried it once and it did not work.".