When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life.

I always like the studio best, once I got the hang of it and the control. I like it because it's complete control

We live in a world where we have to hide to make love, while violence is practiced in broad daylight.

I must say the more interesting songs to me were the black ones because they were more simple.

The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.

Carrying The Beatles' or the Sixties' dream around all your life is like carrying the Second World War and Glenn Miller around. That's not to say you can't enjoy Glenn Miller or The Beatles, but to live in that dream is the twilight zone. It's not living now. It's an illusion.

It was my Fat Elvis period. I was eating and drinking like a pig. I was depressed and I was crying out for help. It's real. And I meant it.