The piano sounds like a carnival and the microphone smells like a beer. And they sit at the bar and put bread in my jar and say, man, what are you doing here?

I'm writing new music all the time. I'm just not writing pop stuff. It's not my goal.

I never stopped writing music, I just stopped writing songs. I've been writing music continually ever since the last album of original tunes, "River Of Dreams" in '93.

There are people who have lost every trace of human kindness.

There will be other words some other day; that is the story of my life.

Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.