When you're out to get the honey you don't go killing all the bees

Don't forget you're alive. 'Cause sometimes when you walk around the city and you're in a bad mood, you can think, hey, wait a minute, we're alive! We don't know what the next second will bring and what a fantastic thing this is. This can get easily forgotten in the routine of life, and that's something I'm trying to bring to my attention at all times. Don't forget you're alive. We're not dead, you know. This is the greatest thing.

I began thinking there should be an American phrase book, 'cause I've got an Italian phrase book, and an Arabic one... now a British one. I think it'd be pretty good to have an American phrase book.

People can change anything they want to, and that means everything in the world.

I want to grow up with my audience. I don't expect to be getting through to the younger pop crowd. I learned that from Paul Simon.

If you ain't thinkin about man and God and law, then you ain't thinkin about nothin'.

I learnt that fame is an illusion and everything about it is just a joke. I'm far more dangerous now, because I don't care at all.