Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.

On tour I'm finding out that I am half gypsy, 40% vagabond, and 10 house cat.

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.

Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.

I think every tour stop on the west coast is equally rewarding for me. There is something healing about the air and the light in the west.

I don't really believe in plans. They only change. My goal is simply to be able to make music and live life in this crazy, falling-apart world.

You have to have a vision and know that it's worth seeing it through. Other than that, just be true to your heart.

I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with.

They may not like what you have to say, but it is better to express how you feel.

The least among the sadhus, saints and monks and other people of God is worthier than you. Never speak ill of them

There are no physical divisions in the subtle domain and therefore no barriers between heaven and hell, light and shadow.

I am not a public speaker and never will be.

Until as recently as November of 1966, I had complete faith in the Warren Report. Of course, my faith in the Report was grounded in ignorance, since I had never read it.

You have only so many bottles in your life, never drink a bad one.

I hated L.A. for a long time, and I wanted to leave it. I had these fantasies of going to 'SNL' and falling in love with some writer on 'SNL,' of getting married and living in New York.

When you smile at people, its a signal to what you are bringing to their life.

When they talk to me, people say, 'I didn't expect you to be how you are.