For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.

I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.

There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some.

We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes.

I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!"

I worked with a lot of different, amazing people, but I was always like, "Dude, I'm sorry, you're going to have to trust me, we've got to do it this way!"

I call my wife and talk to my children four or five times a day. I've surrounded myself with great people and friends, plus I'm always willing to make amends.

I must always march on in my life. What's done is done.

We of Macedon for generations past have been trained in the hard school of danger and war

Children make you a better everything. Daughters open up a whole different sensibility to you. When you have children, it focuses you on them as opposed to on yourself.

A bank is a confidence trick. If you put up the right signs, the wizards of finance themselves will come in and ask you to take their money.

Never insult an alligator until after you have crossed the river.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn't have to put them in prisons?

We have found other terms far less vague than the old ones to designate the same complaints. It's a great advance linguistically.

The reason I got into this business was for the privilege to exist in different genres and different worlds and play out different realities.

Nothing matters to a man who says nothing matters.

Although she was aware that somewhere under her complicated strata of vests and petticoats there was some skin, that didn't mean to say she approved of it.

If you are going to live by faith, then expect your faith to be tested. A faith that can't be tested can't be trusted.