As a songwriter, I think that comes with the territory. The older you get, you like to say it doesn't matter, but you care what people think about what you do.

I'm a family guy. A lot of my songs are inspired by my kids. Simple relationships. Watching them grow up, watching them share experiences with me and vice versa.

We all have our fears, our insecurities. I'm not different from anyone else.

The most rewarding thing of my success has been the ability to use my music for many different causes that have become important to me.

Usually it is a painful process (writing), "Superman" came in 45 minutes; "100 Years" in four months.

If prolific is writing a lot of songs, I'm that. If it's writing a lot of good songs, I'm something else.

As a sports fan, the Los Angeles Kings winning the Stanley Cup makes me feel very alive.

I've learned that love takes priority.

I was able to truly immerse myself in the record-making process. I'm excited about music.

In so many of my songs, I'm trying to touch on various aspects of love.

Once you have kids and you're married, it's all about them. My life changed. You can see in my records.

It's your life-but only if you make it so.

Anxiety is stemmed from worrying about the past and worrying about the future!

No one ever forgets a talk they had that lasted through the night.

Fighting a losing battle is as good as tucking in stones in your pockets, jumping in a dam and hoping to float.

You have to care for all beings created by God...My mission is to help any person in need.

The line I trace with my feet walking to the museum is more important and more beautiful than the lines I find there hung up on the walls.

No matter how much we scorn it, kitsch is an integral part of the human condition.

The dead sleep in their moonless night; my business is with the living.

It's easy to misjudge others. The one thing I try to do with everything I write is open people's eyes to those they normally ignore or dismiss. To make people aware of the "other" side of things.

It’s the most maddening, beautiful, magical, horrible, painful, wonderful joyous thing in the world, love