I was brought up as a Catholic and went to church every week and took the sacraments. It never really touched the core of my being.

I always stayed fit because I'm a performer, and all of those things help me to perform.

If you play music with passion and love and honesty, then it will nourish your soul, heal your wounds and make your life worth living. Music is its own reward.

Without the breath of real freedom we're getting nowhere fast.

For to sit in a room full of books, and remember the stories they told you, and to know precisely where each one is located and what was happening in your life at time or where you were when you first read it is the languid and distilled pleasure of the connoisseur.

Let your pain be my sorrow. Let your tears be my tears too. Let your courage be my model. That the north you find will be true.

Takes more than combat boots to make a man.