Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

No matter how close to yours another's steps have grown, in the end there is one dance you'll do alone.

I was doing my best Bogart, but I was having trouble getting into her jeans.

As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release.

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.

I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.