There was an edge of, 'Go away kid, you're bothering me'. I've kicked myself a million times since. I could've discovered Whitney Houston.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

I can't think of one person I've ever met who didn't like some type of music.

I look in the mirror and think, 'I don't look like a rock star.' I talked about this with Bono and we looked at each other and decided we look like a pair of bricklayers.

Everybody is different. Some writers can write reams of great books and then J. D. Salinger wrote just a few. Beethoven wrote nine symphonies. They were all phenomenal. Mozart wrote some 40 symphonies, and they were all phenomenal. That doesn't mean Beethoven was a lesser writer, it's just some guys are capable of more productivity, some guys take more time.

If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.