I never, ever said that I was a nice guy.

I was all caught up with identifying with certain things. They just weren't very stimulating things.

If you're a pop singer, you don't need to evolve. You just get a set together, have some hit songs and play them over and over.

I realized that what I was looking for was doing collaborations with other people - people who can play a ballad, rock, jazz. I was looking for more co-op type things than what I had been doing, which had been completely my own trip.

I'd love to live in Ireland but I'd like to live as me, not what someone thinks I am. People don't understand - I lived there before I was famous.

Let go into the mystery. Let yourself go. And when you open up your heart, you get everything you need. Baby there's a way and a mystic road. You've got to have some faith to carry on, you've got to open up your heart to the Son.

Meet them halfway with love, peace, and persuasion, and expect them to rise for the occasion.