Do something you really like, and hopefully it pays the rent. As far as I'm concerned, that's success.

I don't think it's a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.

TV does not care about you or what happens to you. It's downright bad for your health now, and that's not a far-out concept. I think watching the TV news is bad for you. It is bad for your physical health and your mental health.

When you get older, your health becomes important to you, things start breaking down, you've always got a different ache or pain.

What I've learned about marriage: You need to have each other's back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.

Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There's not some trick involved with it. It's pure and it's real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.

It's funny how the music industry is enraged about the Internet and the way things are copied without being paid for. But you know why people steal the music? Because they can't afford the music.

Go after what you really love and find a way to make that work for you, and then you'll be a happy person.

I feel sorry for kids these days. They get so much homework. Remember the days when we put a belt around our two books and carried them home? Now they're dragging a suitcase. They have school all day, then homework from six until eleven. There's no time left to be creative.