I never wanted to be a prophet or a saviour. Elvis maybe

I took her by the hand and my heart it was thumpin'. When she said, hey man, you crazy or somethin'?

People are going to say, ‘Well, it’s not very truthful.’ But a songwriter doesn’t care about what’s truthful. What he cares about is what should’ve happened, what could’ve happened. That’s its own kind of truth. It’s like people who read Shakespeare plays, but they never see a Shakespeare play. I think they just use his name.

If I lived my life by what others were thinkin', the heart inside me would've died.

How many times must a man look up, before he can see the sky?

You should always take the best from the past, leave the worst back there and go forward into the future.

I was born a long way from where I belong and I am on my way home.