The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

I feel like if you let someone else create your vision, then it's not true to your band. No one can ever do as good as you want, or as good as you can yourself.

Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.

Shower the people you love with love Show them the way that you feel Things are gonna work out fine if you only will.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.