It is hard to understand addiction unless you have experienced it.

It is always encouraging and kind when people say nice things about my work but I know that it is not me that did it then and it is not me that is doing it now. It is God living in me and for that I will always be grateful.

If you want to capitulate to what commercial needs are, you can always be commercially valuable, but I'm not interested in being that.

The past has infinite value if one learns from it.

People often forget this - a vinyl album could only contain a maximum of 20 minutes per side!

All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.

I always write lyrics first and the rhythm and the melody come from the lyrics. It always comes from the lyrics: words have rhythm and words have melody.