I approach my music-making as an art-form--something pure from the spirit to which I can add dynamics and marketable reality. Music is genuine and healthy and the stimulation I get from molding it and adding dynamics is like nothing else on earth.

I can write songs, I've had songs in movies, but I can't compose film scores, you know?

Love and mercy that's what you need tonight. Love and mercy to you and your friends tonight.

I think cursing is a bunch of malarkey.

I'd earned over a million dollars by the time I was old enough to vote.

Chuck Norris has been known to throw a baseball 100 mph. I've been known to throw Chuck Norris 100 mph.

Being single is like liking a Phil Spector record.