All my songs are where I am.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

A nation creates music - the composer only arranges it.

Somebody who should have been born is gone.

We've turned into a whining society.

When I meet somebody, I hang out with them, and it's all good, but I don't take it too seriously

Mankind owns its destiny, and its destiny is the earth. We are destroying it until we have no destiny.

it's 12 amyl nitrites (one box), in conjunction with as many beers as necessary.

God tends to do his best work when the odds appear stacked against him.

Libraries: Here is where people, one frequently finds, lower their voices, and raise their minds.

Your characters should be as smart as you are, if not smarter.

It's always been great to be onstage. It's really effortless up there. It's not a lot of work.