Love was always the goal, and my point every step of the way was that nothing is wrong with love, no matter what flavor it comes in.

Men make angry music and it's called rock-and-roll; women include anger in their vocabulary and suddenly they're angry and militant.

I would rather have these things weigh on my mind. At the end of this tunnel of guilt and shame, there must be a light of some kind.

I've been singing this song now for twenty five minutes. I could sing it for another twenty five minutes. I'm not proud... or tired.

The dream - you never achieve it. The excitement of life lies in the hope, in the striving for something rather than the attainment.

I can't stand to see red in my profit-or-loss column. I'm Taurus the bull, so I react to red. If I see it, I sell my stocks quickly.

More times than not, it's a failed endeavor. You will fail more times than you succeed. But I think you need those failed endeavors.

As long as the songs are strong, I think you can express yourself in any style and have it be soulful and have it be your own voice.

There are bugs and there are the pigeons and other predators, but you shouldn't be afraid of them, because this is how nature works.

In school, I guess I was a difficult, know-it-all type of student... I was always complaining that music education was too academic.

There are so many people out there working with great grassroots and global and national organizations that are unsung heroes to me.

I find that most people [in social media] just want me to say "happy birthday" to their mom or wish them good luck with their exams.

I think that it can be said of a lot of artists, and myself included, that we made the same record over and over from the beginning.

I wish I could tell you me and my rock band were traveling around, strung out. No, we were a family band. Straight Partridge Family.

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 do not like people touching my underwear. That's just weird! I travel with a washer and dryer, and I like cooking on the bus, too.

If you want to sing out, sing out, and if you want to be free, be free, cause there's a million ways to be, you know that there are.

You know, it's possible for two humans to be in a relationship without there needing to be some public reason for that relationship.

My shaven head is my way of saying 'I wont take no for an answer,' it is my way of saying 'I believe in my creativity and artistry.'

Songwriting is like a therapy, it's a connection that you have with another person, and I'm not scared of it at all for some reason.

Talking with my friends and family every day helps keep me grounded and connected to home. They are the most important things to me.

Christmas, my child, is love in action." ~ Dale Evans (1912-2001), American film actress, singer and songwriter. Wife of Roy Rogers.

Being able to scream at the top of my lungs in front of people is very therapeutic. It is a great gift for me to be able to do that.

I'll be back 'round again, yes, I'll walk in time with you, old friend. And we'll find that place that we had danced in so long ago.

I don't really know why I'm such an emotional person, that's just how I was born. It's a problem. It's not easy to be married to me.

There are a lot of grown ups who should be sent up to their rooms and told they must stay there until they learn they can play fair.

When I was a teenager, I got into four track recorders, drum machines, and synthesizers, and I started producing instrumental music.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

If my time on earth were through and she must face the world without me, is the love I gave her in the past gonna be enough to last?

I tried to stick with what I knew best, which is writing rock n' roll songs and melodies. I am as passionate as I was when I was 20.

I'm actually quite modest. All I want is a nice car. All I want is a drink at midnight on Sunday night and I'll be a very happy man.

People say, ''I'm a woman trapped in a man's body'' or ''I'm a man trapped in a woman's body,'' but I say ''I'm trapped in a body.''

I once performed The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald to about 15 sea captains. The song was about a ship that broke in half and sank.

To write an album takes so much focus and selfish time, to just write and think about your life. For me. Maybe not for other people.

The presidents against Congress, the Senate is against the House, people are against politicians, and I'm against cats in the house.

They let dangerous men out of prison now, yes sir, I'm afraid it's so. Cause they're over crowded and it was only his fifth offense.

This is what I've learned, in my life: Headbanging is crucial. Growing up is hard to do. There's nothing wrong with wearing a dress.

Love that so many of you are saying your 2 fav bands are Green Day & Paramore. Do you even realize how cool that is for us to hear!?

My first work in comics had an Adult theme and I had to create a nom du plume to separate that work and my Children's entertainment.

I don't believe in nirvana. If nirvana was handed to us on a silver platter, this would be the first day of our struggle to keep it.

I was not a great guitarist, so I sold my 1960 Fender Stratocaster in exchange for a Shure Microphone, made in Chicago, and a flute.

What I've always done as an entertainer is try to come up with things that people will find interesting, or compelling, or humorous.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

It's what I do well - I write about things that make people uncomfortable. That's probably the only thing I do better than my peers.

One thing that remains consistent throughout anything I do in life really is remaining true to myself and trusting my gut instincts.

There's no perfect [date]. There's no agenda which has to be fulfilled. So really it's about the company and how well you get along.

You have to be an ally in a difficult time and not turn on yourself with self-shaming thoughts, which makes facing pain intolerable.

The highs, the lows, the peaks, the valleys, whatever, it's all going to go into the art, whether I'm singing or acting or whatever.

Our minds do understand that people of all races find genuine love in many places. We dig that the world is full of amazing options.

Singing is a f***ing blast. When it’s really good, it’s as good as the best sex. I get nipple erections all the time on stage, I do!

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