Residuals from Australia, from the Mission Magic show, saved my butt. So there is a reason for everything.

It would be pretty shabby to appear flippant around a documentary that's about how much I love my fans.

I do have a lot of deep religious iconography. I have crosses all over my house, and there's something very attractive about seeing nuns walking down the street. It's not a sexual thing for me; I know it is for some guys.

The only good grades I ever got in school before I was kicked out were for creative writing. I thought that fiction might be in my future but then my career took a different path once the Beatles showed me what a blast being in a band could be. Writing my memoir Late, Late at Night reminded me how much I love the craft. So I decided to give fiction a shot again.Magnificent Vibration is the result. I’m still not quite sure where it came from, but once I got going, it practically wrote itself. I’ve heard writers I admire speak of that phenomenon, so maybe I’m on the right track.

I write to be truthful in my songs, which is why I wrote what's painfully truthful about my life in my autobiography.

Karma is not just about the troubles, but also about surmounting them.

When someone pursues music through your music, that's the greatest accolade anybody can get.