Tom Cochrane

I even got letters form kids in hospitals saying the music is what keeps them going, and that really touched my heart.

I don't get mad too much.

I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

Children know when they are being sold a sanitised version of the world, and I think that's a betrayal of the relationship between author and reader.