Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

Writing about music is like dancing about architecture.

Alan Rittenhouse: I know you're just a reporter, but you used to be a person, right?

Find my hand in the darkness, intertwined you will be the day to my night. We can share wings and take flight towards our own inner light.

When God wants to do an impossible task, He takes an impossible person and breaks her.

For me that's what's fascinating about the internet, that aggregate thing.

My mom and dad got divorced when I was very young, and growing up in a family where the head of the household wasn't a man made a big difference.

Catholics have guilt and Jews have guilt, fine. But mothers can trump them all.

I don't talk soft, that's that other guy.

I have been extremely fortunate to have incredibly special fans support my work throughout my twelve year career.

The prevalent fear of poverty among the educated classes is the worst moral disease from which our civilization suffers.