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.

I come from a family of losers, and I've rejected my family as something I don't want to be like.

I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

There is no monopoly on common sense on either side of the political fence.

Mr. Breschnev says we will bury you, I don't subscribe to that point of view. It seems like such an ignorant thing to do, if the Russians love their children, too.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.