I am keeping with TRADITION today. After I LEARNED of my Golden Globe nomination, I went to the dentist, so today, let's MAKE it the orthodontist.

I met Gemma, my wife, when she was 12. She had a schoolgirl CRUSH on me and her dad had arranged for her to meet me. Later, she started COMING to my concerts, but I only got to know her well after her mother DIED. I rang to see how she was, and that's how it started.

It seems to me we can never GIVE up longing and wishing while we are thoroughly ALIVE. There are certain things we feel to be BEAUTIFUL and good, and we must hunger after them.

To SLEEP after sunrise was IMPOSSIBLE on account of the number of flies which KEPT BUZZING about the face.

It SEEMS that other parts of the WORLD ought to be concerned about what we think of them INSTEAD of what they think of us. After all, we're feeding most of them, and whenever they start rejecting 25 CENTS of each dollar of foreign aid MONEY that we send to them, then I'll be concerned about their attitude toward us.

We may not know what each day has in store for us. We COULD be gone tomorrow. Any MINUTE could truly be our goodbye. But we do have this moment. This time. TODAY. Right now. It takes way more effort to shell out HATE then it does to ALLOW love to flow freely in our lives. After all, it's what we were born to do.

Do not let a flattering WOMAN coax and wheedle you and DECEIVE you; she is after your BARN.

When I first MOVED to L.A., I cleaned apartments after people moved out. When people move, they leave STUFF behind and haven't cleaned for weeks. I like to clean - I have no problem with cleaning - but some apartments were filthy and disgusting. And there'd ALWAYS be a random flip-flop left SOMEWHERE on its own.

After pop ART, graffiti is probably the BIGGEST art movement in recent HISTORY to have such an impact on culture.

Oh gosh, I noticed dramatic CHANGES in my body after I STARTED doing YOGA, but I also think you have to SHAKE things up.

We set out with nothing but MUSIC as our dream, but we didn't know where we were going, whether we were going uphill or downhill, or as we took a break after becoming TIRED, whether AROUND the corner there was a paradise or a pitfall. That's how we STARTED.

It's interesting - a lot of what you accomplish in your lifetime either as an individual or as a company is DETERMINED by other people. I mean, you can do interview after interview and defend a point of view, but more OFTEN than not, the collective KIND of opinion will be the one viewed historically and TAKEN as gospel.