For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

When you look up and don’t see the stars, the universe may have cleared the sky for you to replace them.

Make love your religion, and all the citadels of man-made religious conflicts shall disappear from the face of earth once and for all.

I have a black belt in sarcasm, and my wit is like lightning.

By pursuing your allurements, you help bind the universe together. The unity of the world rests on the pursuit of passion.

The trouble with Nixon is that he's a serious politics junkie. He's totally hooked and like any other junkie, he's a bummer to have around, especially as President.

Any program is only as good as it is useful.

We need to give up what no longer works and find new ways of being that keeps us close to what matters.

To lose ourselves in God is simply to give up our own will to Him. When a soul can truly say Lord I have no other will than Thine it is truly lost in God and united to Him.

I am off all the cancer meds. Energy is a bit low but other than that, I feel really good.

How now, wit! Whither wander you?