All the signs were right. And when I mean all the sings were right, the only signs that we care about when we start a project of making a record is, do we have the songs - it's that simple.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

The only seed that needs regular watering is our imagination.

I'm learning quickly, once you quit one thing, it gets easier and easier just to leave situations rather than deal with shit.

At first are moving tombs on the surface of the surface of the earth

Faith keeps many doubts in her pay. If I could not doubt, I should not believe.

Pour me something tall and strong, make it a Hurricane before I go insane. It's only half past twelve but I don't care, it's 5 O'clock somewhere.

I don't know how I know that, but I do. I can feel the beat of that truth inside me. Taste it bitter on my tongue. Sometimes, like now, I didn't think I want to know who I really am.

She had never really listened to anyone in her life; which, some said, was why she had survived.

We must come to see that the end we seek is a society at peace with itself, a society that can live with its conscience.

...as I apprehend the Buddhist doctrine of karma, I agree in principle with that.

If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.