I've always wanted to smash a guitar over someone's head. You just can't do that with a piano.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever.

In my 20s I was so ignorant about drugs, and so naive. I mean, my band was smoking marijuana for years; I didn't even know what a joint was. And I'd never seen a line of cocaine in my life. And I don't know whether it was bravado or - OK, I'll join in. But my stupidity, I had a line of coke, and that started the whole process.

To forgive and be forgiven, if it's the last thing I do, then in death's release I may find the peace that in life I never knew.

And we have come so far like that. I mean, the advances on the medication side have been enormous, and the advances on the human side have been enormous. But we still have this stigma to get rid of, and then we really will be able to see the light at the end of the tunnel.

...I'm so over the tattoos and the T-shirts and rings through the noses. It's not pretty, it's not pleasant, it's not exciting. Please stop it now.

They [sic] ain't gonna stop me from coming here, baby.