I only write music for myself, I don’t try and appeal to anyone else.

I’ve been probably one of the most boot-legged artists ever. It’s just another way of getting music that is wanted by the people to the people and now you can just download from the internet,...

I don’t like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

I draw on my memories but blended with a lot of fantasy…but let’s set the record straight on something! The Summer of ’69 has nothing to do with the actual year 1969. It’s about making...

I like the idea of helping people help people.

I always knew I’d be in music in some sort of capacity. I didn’t know if I’d be successful at it, but I knew I’d be doing something in it. Maybe get a job in...

I’m amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it’s changed. You go away for a month and there’s three more skyscrapers.

I am really looking forward to returning to Dubai as always. The audiences are always receptive to my music and Dubai as a city never ceases to amaze me … it is constantly changing.

To be a celebrity, I couldn’t think of anything more cringe-worthy.

If the bag had, in fact, contained the explosive device that was anticipated, the bomb could have detonated several times over in the hour that the bag sat there.

I need to be able to rock out.

It’s a very funny play. The music is just tremendous; it’s a comedy with opera mixed in.

I’m not afraid of being thought of as someone who is associated with film music. Why not? If it’s a good song, what does it matter?

I’m working on a new album. I’ve written 30 songs, five of those are good, and three I really love.

I remember being in Hollywood at the age of 16 and marveling at the stars. The idea of being part of it never entered my mind. It was too far-fetched.

I’ve always wanted to push myself and move with the tide. That’s just how I am and it’s worked for me.

Thoughts are things; they have tremendous power. Thoughts of doubt and fear are pathways to failure. When you conquer negative attitudes of doubt and fear you conquer failure. Thoughts crystallize into habit and habit solidifies...

I’ve never been enamoured by the idea of being a celebrity.

We’re still cleaning up the mess today.

I never took a grant or borrowed a penny from anybody. It was partially because I didn’t really know how to do that, but secondly, my pride never would have allowed me to. In the...

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I’d seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

I am here to perform for humanity.

Music became my focus. At 13, I was jamming with my mates. At 15, I was playing clubs.

I was shocked; I didn’t know what it really was. I thought it was a disease you got from eating too much sugar.

I feel quite sad for the young musicians coming up because they may never get to pay their rent properly. It doesn’t matter what the genre; nowadays, it’s so much harder than it ever was.

I pack every minute I can with something to do.

He wants it to be great. He phoned me every day just to check in, to see if there’s anything I need. It’s great to have someone with that kind of enthusiasm. It makes you...

Music is just such… it’s not therapy, but it’s a release, it’s a joy, it’s a pleasure. And it’s a job – which is weird, because I don’t think of it as a job.

They just out-hit them, flat out. Nobody was expecting to play. We were goofing off all day. We were goofing off in the dugout before the game.

I’ve only ever trusted my gut on everything. I don’t trust my head, I don’t trust my heart, I trust my gut.

A songwriter writes songs all the time, whereas just writing a song can be done by anyone, anytime.

I think a lot of people want to be remembered the way they were, as opposed to the way they are now.

It cuts like a knife but it feels so right.

I’d been round the world a hundred times and had started to forget where I’d been. I knew I’d been there: it said it on the tour map. I could remember the name of the...

The whole idea of coming to Pakistan is very exciting on many levels. It’s exciting because I know we are the first Western artists to come and play a big concert here.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don’t, there are consequences you’ll have to deal with later in life.

I think all my videos suck.

I think I’m better behind the camera than I am in front.

We’re going to raise a lot of money to hopefully help rebuild some schools in the areas that have been devastated.

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I’d love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn’t me, it wasn’t my...

I ate a big steak in 1988 and never felt worse. That was it, boom, over. Never again.

If your music is great, you will have fans, not because you have spent time chatting on social media.

Focus on your music and not technology.

I never had a long-term plan.

Our surveillance team set up and watched this particular group install a card reader and a camera on the ATM machine,

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I’ve never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

Can you lay your life down, so a stranger can live?Can you take what you need, but take less than you give? Could you close every day, without the glory and fame? Could you hold...

There’s not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

I’m a complete and utter busker.