I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.

His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.

this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.