Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

The Maestro says it's Mozart but it sounds like bubble gum when you're waiting for the miracle to come.

I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.

We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

Love is the only engine of survival

As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.