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If you are not doing what you love, you are wasting your time.

I'm sure you have some cosmic rationale, but here you are with your faith and your Peter Pan advice.

Rock and roll cola wars, I can't take it any more.

I believe that all important matters have to be settled here, not in the clouds somewhere after we kick off.

It's a little intimidating to walk into a studio and know that you're going to sing a duet with Barbra Streisand.

In every heart there is a room, A sanctuary safe and strong, To heal the wounds from lovers past, Until a new one comes along

...And you're the only one who knows.

Some love is just a lie of the heart, the cold remains of what began with a passionate heart.

Sergeant O'Leary is walking the beat, at night he becomes a bar tender.

Why don't the Beatles get back together? Why don't nobody sing of romance?

Move to California - my first impression of the Wild West.

Call me a joker, call me a fool, right at this moment I'm totally cool.

Though you can see when you're wrong, you know you can't always see when you're right.

You've given me the best of you, but now I need the rest of you.

Even when I stop performing or stop making records I won't stop being creative. Songwriting is a good outlet.

You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

Don't wait for answers, just take your chances. Don't ask me why.

You may be wrong, but you may be right.

They're sharing a drink called loneliness, but at least its better than drinking alone.

I'm writing for the sake of writing music. Whether it gets heard or not isn't an issue for me. It keeps my own juices going and my mind active.

Critics have said I write without spontaneity, in cold blood. I don't. I write in hot blood.

Remember how I found you there alone in your electric chair, I told you dirty jokes until you smiled.

I see the children with their boredom and their vacant stares.

Following a code of silence, you're never gonna lose the anger.

Call you up in the middle of the night. It's awful hard trying to make love long distance, but I really need stimulation.

Do what you love, and you'll always love what you do

Your mother told you all that I could give you was a reputation.

No end to sorrow, caused by the same endless fears. Why can't we learn from all we've been through after two thousand years?

She always says I'm the best friend that she's ever had... how do you hang up on someone who needs you that bad? ~From 'Laura' on The Nylon Curtain

I don't belong in limos or private jets or on stage with people cheering me but that's what's kept me grounded because I know it's not right.

Do what's good for you
Or you're not good for anybody

They are sharing a drink called loneliness.

Rock and roll just used to be for kicks, now a days it's politics.

People in music lie, but they don't expect you to believe them. People in television actually expect you to believe the lies.

You can get what you want or you can just get old.

Take risks. Take chances. Don't be afraid. You gotta go into life brave.

Working too hard can give you a heart-attack.

I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.

All she wanted was sax.

Well I never had a place that I could call my very own/That's all right, my love, 'cause you're my home.

I'm in a New York state of mind

Home can be the Pennsylvania Turnpike
Indiana's early morning dew
High up in the hills of California
Home is just another word for you

I see the winos talking to themselves and I can understand.

What if she figures out you're not very smart?

I have a theory that the only original things we ever do are mistakes.

A typical day in the life of a heavy metal musician consists of a round of golf and an AA meeting.

It should be easy for a man who's strong to say he's sorry or admit when he's wrong.

I am, as I've said, merely competent. But in an age of incompetence, that makes me extraordinary.

I can't remember faces, don't remember names, but after awhile and a thousand miles it all becomes the same.

It's alright, you can afford to lose a day or two

I hope it does not take the rest of my life until I find what it is I've been looking for.

If you're a very unfulfilled person you might have a tendency to turn to crime.

I may be an antique like the Stones, but antiques are valuable.

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.

We're only human, we're supposed to make mistakes.

I watched the mighty skyline fall

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

It's really hard to make a living as a musician. It's almost impossible.

We are living in a time when American popular music is finally being recognized as one of our most successful exports. The demand is huge.

You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.

You look so polished from your hair down to your toes, but still your finger's gonna pick your nose.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

I did write a letter to the archdiocese who'd banned the song, Only the Good Die Young, asking them to ban my next record.

You can linger too long in your dreams...

I sold my house to Jerry Seinfeld.

Every time I've held a rose,
It seems I only felt the thorns

There's a deep-seated paranoia that Americans have about not being Americans or something.

They're sharing a drink they call lonliness, but it's better than drinking alone.

I don't want clever conversation, I never want to work that hard, I just want someone I can talk to, I want you just the way you are.

If you said good-bye to me tonight, There would still be music left to write.

I won't be righteous again. I'm not sure anymore.

Don't be afraid to try again everyone goes south every now and then.

Hot funk, cold punk, even if it's old junk, it's still rock and roll to me.

Where have you been hanging out lately honey? You can't dress trashy 'til you spend a lot of money.

Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania.

It's OK if you mess up. You should give yourself a break.

I could walk away from anyone I ever knew, but I can't walk away from you.

I've written a bunch of stuff that no one's ever heard, and I don't know if they ever will. I'm just doing it for my own edification.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

Streetlife serenaders Have no obligations Hold no grand illusions Need no stimulation.

I'm not the kind of guy who wants to be on a pedestal.

I have long admired Steinway pianos for their qualities of tone, clarity, pitch consistency, touch responsiveness, and superior craftsmanship.

She's got a smile that heals me.

Like a boxer in a title fight, you have to walk in that ring alone.

I'd rather laugh with the sinners than cry with the saints.

Give us this day our daily discount merchandise.

I'm a history nut.

Some people stay far away from the door if there's a chance of it opening up. They hear a voice in the hall outside and hope that it just passes by.

It was so easy living day by day Out of touch with the rhythm and blues But now I need a little give and take The New York Times, The Daily News.

She can kill with her smile, she can wound with her eyes.

When I look at great works of art or listen to inspired music, I sense intimate portraits of the specific times in which they were created.

I'm single but interviewing.

She's got a way about her,
And everywhere she goes,
a million dreams of love surround her,
everywhere.

They say there's a heaven for those who wait, some say it's better I say it ain't.

If you could only hear what I dream.

You'll learn more from your accidents than anything that you could ever learn at school.

When I was a young musician, the only option available to pursue secondary education in music was to attend a classical conservatory.

Advice is cheap; you can take it from me.

You've got your passion. You've got your pride. But don't you know that only fools are satisfied? Dream on, but don't imagine they'll all come true.