I've been up the mountain and I had a choice. Should I come down? So I came down. God said, Okay, you've been up on the mountain, now you go down. You're on your own, free. Check in later, but now you're on your own.

I have always believed that fame is a curse. I never envied one of the famous people I've known.

For them that think death's honesty won't fall upon them naturally life sometimes must get lonely.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

You can always come back, but you can't come back all the way.

Truth is an arrow and the gate is narrow that it passes through.

Once I can focus in on something, I just play it in my mind until an idea comes from out of nowhere, and it's usually the key to the whole song. It's the idea that matters. It's like electricity was around long before Edison harnessed it.