Beatle's wrote the Nike song and called it macaroni.

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

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.

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.

Maybe there is some Abnegation in everyone. Well in everyone but Peter."-Tris Prior

We aim to bemen who’ll makeour mothers proud, but we end upmaking them cry, and are onlyslightly betterthan our fathers, at best

Decisions are always characterized by the lack of information and knowledge.

The problem is not those who dream, but those who can only dream.

There is no mistake in nature.

Björk’s wraparound swan frock . . . made her look like a refugee from the more dog-eared precincts of provincial ballet.

The music takes you. It has to be alive. It's like you hammer something, and the way it happens to bleed leads you into new directions.

In America, law substitutes for custom.

The model is not to be copied, but to be realized.

If you read to me I could tell you everything that was read. They didn't know what it was. They knew I wasn't lazy, but what was it?