I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

I could have been an architect, but I don't think I'd have been very happy. Nearly all modern architecture is a silly game as far as I can see.

I would not rule out going to Israel because I disapprove of the foreign policy any more than I would refuse to play in the UK because I disapprove of Tony Blair's foreign policy.

I confess I've never felt like a passenger.

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

We were contracted to make a soundtrack album but there really wasn't enough new material in the movie to make a new record that I thought was interesting.

I'm in competition with myself and I'm losing.

It's a miracle was the last track recorded for the album, we based it on the rhythm from the middle of 'Late Home Tonight, where there's Graham Broad playing lots and lots of drums with me shouting in the background, pretending to be a mad Arab leader.

Not the torturer will scare me, nor the body's final fall, nor the barrels of death's rifles, nor the shadows on the wall, nor the night when to the ground the last dim star of pain, is hurled but the blind indifference of a merciless, unfeeling world.

For an artist to go and play in a country that occupies other people's land and oppresses them, the way Israel does, is plain wrong. They should say no.

I found that the loudest fans in the world are in Istanbul.

I have no problem with any question.

I think there are things in my story that have helped my creativity. Your father being killed, for instance, is one of the best things that could happen to a kid if he's going to write poetry or songs.

The United States has held out against taking part in any of the world consensus that there should be a court of human rights or that there should be an international court of criminal justice.

When I first got a guitar, it was a Spanish, classical thing.

You take the risk of being rejected.

I can accept failure, but I can't accept not trying.

Limits, like fear, is often an illusion.

That bad manners are so prevalent in the world is the fault of good manners.

We're really good friends and we hang out. It's like I get to hang out with my friends and get paid for it.

It is all about being open and paying attention to the music in your head. I think most people have original music playing in their heads from time to time.

The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.

You can't make anything without making mistakes, do you know what I mean? Robert De Niro's in the 'Rocky and Bullwinkle' film. There's a lot of far greater people than me who have made mistakes in their careers... There's loads of people who have made stuff that isn't good and never get asked about it.

I believe in professionalism, less in politicians.

A bunch of liberals wanted to outlaw men gazing at women because the gaze was said to objectify women. Sorry, liberals, it can't be helped among the heterosexual crowd.

There's nothing better for kids than a bucket and shovel at the beach. I grew up across the marsh from The Citadel. We loved buying chicken necks at the Piggly Wiggly, tying them to a string on a stick and catching blue crabs.

Men are like the stars; some generate their own light while others reflect the brilliance they receive.

The day of the great jazz improviser who doesn't know how to read music is over.

I came like Water, and like Wind I go.

Devotion as it relates to the title of my memoir means fidelity as in fidelity to a person or a practice. I think its certainly possible to feel devotion without having faith at least in the religious sense of the word.

It's not my job to get really personal in how I express myself. I've met fans, and they've been lovely. But letting my personal life out there, I don't think is a good idea for me. I think the more you do that, the more you can be accused of encouraging that kind of attention.

God knows the times I have found myself in absurd situations.

We all know the Navy is never wrong, but in this case it was a little weak on being right.

Playing the running back position, your legs, that's your living, that's how you make your living. You have to have great thighs, knees, everything.

The paradox of innovation is that it is accepted as an innovation when it has become imitation.

To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.

I love the art world, I love art galleries, I love what it means - I love art.

I don't think I've ever properly been in love. I've had a few girlfriends and have liked them loads, but I'm not sure it was love.

I had been told that the training procedure with cats was difficult. It's not. Mine had me trained in two days.

The vulgar boil, the learned roast, an egg.