For a songwriter, you dont really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

A man’s life is not qualified by how much wealth, power, pleasure or control he has, but by the values of godliness he possesses.

You don't manifest dreams without taking chances.

True love propels a person to great feats all without so much as a word.

How to succeed: Try hard enough. How to fail: Try too hard.

The dreams we are chasing and the reality that is chasing us are always parallel; they never meet.

Songwriting requires some sort of ceremony to even get the process started, and it can be somewhat arbitrary.

I have got a running stream of love you see. So no matter what stages.. they put us through, we'll never be blue.

When you’re sitting in a dark room, you can either sit and curse the darkness—or you can light a candle.

People think that digital language is a fixed language, but it's not: it's very fluid. It's like I'm doing a painting where the paint refuses to dry.

My life is so much better, it's so much more enriched if I make the effort, if I actually celebrate with gladitude the fact that I get to be on this gorgeous planet.