I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Most of these - most people's stage personas are created out of the flotsam and jetsam of their internal geography.

You may not be able to hit all the notes. That's OK. You may not have the clearest tone. You may not have the greatest range. But if you can inhabit your song, you can communicate.

The only thing I know as I get older is that I don't really need to be No. 1.

A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.

A pop song is a condensed version of a life in three minutes, whereas, when you go to write your prose, you have to find the rhythm in your words, and you have to find the rhythm in the voice that you have found and the way you're speaking.