What I like about being a musician is that I find the thing soothing, but I also give the soothing to other people.

I think that music has been a great help to me and this has been confirmed by every psychiatrist I have seen. I would probably be dead if not for music.

It's very hard to be perceived as a boss, and behaving like a boss or wanting to be treated like one.

Remember what I told you. If they hated me, they will hate you.

In my belief, there's one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don't think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David or too early in the morning or whatever.

It was the case in the 70s and 80s that people believed music could change the world. But now people aren't making music because they want to change the world; they're making music because they want to just make a ton of money.

If there was acceptance of the mentally ill in the Catholic Church, the entire Curia would resign!