Pastoral Resources

I have three sons, and I think we're both fierce protectors of our children.

Best of all is it to preserve everything in a pure, still heart, and let there be for every pulse a thanksgiving, and for every breath a song.

I have a son, Mason, who is disabled - cerebral palsy - and he does not walk independently, sit independently or speak. He uses a talking computer. I started becoming an advocate for him when he was 3 years old.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but it's good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

Before, I was terrified on stage. I only play guitar during the acoustic songs. After a while, you can elicit certain responses from the crowd, like Elvis.

I'll have to get people to write songs for me right now until my own writing comes around.

When you write a song you have an idea of how it should be sung but it doesn't work out that way if someone else records it.

I love making records; I love making music; I love writing songs.

I will always have my songs and I don't think I will ever dry-up.

I would be content if I had nothing but a tape-recorder. I could still write songs and record them.

When we write, we complement each other. We wrote six songs, Barry and I, while Robin was ill during the American tour, and they were terrible until Robin came back, and then everything worked out.

We don't mind being ripped apart, but don't rip the songs apart. They're like our kids.

It's very hard to write a song alone. It's only by jamming that you can get a song together.

Jim Morrison's very good looking, but I don't like this version of the song. The Feliciano version is better.

I try to imagine how we would live if we didn't know we were going to die. Would we live our lives differently? Less careful, maybe? Less scared? These are beautiful things to think about and build a song around.

I've just put my heart and soul in a song and need at least a week to recover.

Your children are not your children. They are the sons and daughters of Life's longing for itself. They came through you but not from you and though they are with you yet they belong not to you.

I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit.

It's about giving the people what they want. So many people have told me that they've made love to my records so what I've delivered this time is an album about sex. Pretty much every song has that theme. Straight no chasers, it's booty music!

One of my favorite songs from the album is a song called 'For Better or Worse,' and it's basically about unconditional love, which is, I'd say, an ongoing theme in my personal life.