I'd always thought that if I could get sober and stay sober, I would be able to have a career making music. My drug and alcohol addiction was the one….

It seemed to travel with her, to sweep her aloft in the power of song, so that she was moving in glory among the stars, and for a moment she, too, fe….

It's always interesting to me to see people projecting things, like people would say, "This record is much more mature than your other record" and I ….

So live your life that the fear of death can never enter your heart. Trouble no one about their religion; respect others in their view, and demand th….

I just started to understand my craft, what I wanted to do as an artist. It's just a growing process. Figuring out exactly what I wanted to do and ob….

I think after doing Push and Shove and having it not be successful, I lost a lot of confidence. Songwriting, for me, has always been traumatic, and I….

Men with fine gifts think it worth while to live to paint a few great pictures which shall be looked at and admired for generations; or to write a fe….

We spent a long time learning the craft of songwriting, Roger Glover and I, for a few years before we joined Deep Purple. You learn about the percuss….

I'm one of those people that I make a song... then I write another song and then I'm like, 'But this song is so much better than this song,' and then….

Bob Altman got nothing from the TV series 'M*A*S*H,' and the royalties for the theme song went to his oldest son, Michael, who wrote it as a 15-year-….

The collision of hail or rain with hard surfaces, or the song of cicadas in a summer field. These sonic events are made out of thousands of isolated ….

I love lyrics. I've always been averse to the straight lyric idea. I guess a big part of it is, that songs that are literary always turn me off. Beca….

My song-writing has always been just about my life - usually my worst moments..

I've always been making stuff. I had a very free upbringing, and very encouraging parents. I just found that it was a really cool thing, to write son….

When I went to do my big audition with actors for Mr. Blonde, the thing that was very interesting was the first person to actually do the audition wi….

Morrissey wrote a really gorgeous song for me. I'm crazy for that man. And he thinks I'm hip!.

Ancient one sleeping, waiting to rise When earth's power bleeds sacred red The mark strikes true; Queen Tsi Sgili will devise He shall be washed from….

In my songs there's a lot of intimate, personality - driven, sweet singing, and that's the kind I actually love the most, as close to how we speak as….

I don't mind him not talking so much, because you can hear his voice in your heart; the same way you can hear a song in your head even if there isn't….

Farewell, farewell," said the swallow, with a heavy heart, as he left the warm countries, to fly back into Denmark. There he had a nest over the wind….

I live alone in a house, so for me it's very good to just be able to re-charge and just disappear and escape from reality and that's usually when I w….