Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

We have to allow ourselves to feel it in order to heal it.

True love is a word found by a madman to make the people who believe in it go mad.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

I believe no one qualification is so likely to make a good writer, as the power of rejecting his own thoughts.

Like the turtle, you need to stick your neck out to make progress.

Come, let us give a little time to folly... and even in a melancholy day let us find time for an hour of pleasure.

The women are, of course, the biggest single group of oppressed people in the world and, if we are to believe the Book of Genesis, the very oldest.

You can tell a lot about a person by how excited they are to do the Macarena.

Yes, it is the Big Easy, home of the shortest hangover on the planet, where libation can greet you on Monday morning with the same smile as it did on Saturday night.

Hoc age ['do this'] is the great rule, whether you are serious or merry; whether ... learning science or duty from a folio, or floating on the Thames. Intentions must be gathered from acts.