I absolutely adore the alchemy of a bit of an idea.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

Writing without responsibility is like taking out your cloths in public and begging people to not look at you.

You are incredible, amazing, and magical.

The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you're still a rat.

The greatest gift you ever give is your honest self.

The outflow that comes from giving of oneself opens the door to spiritual unfoldment while the attitude of taking locks it.

Reading is the inhale, writing is the exhale.

Evil is not likely to result where people firmly believe that ends do not justify the means.

Keep on adding, keep on walking, keep on progressing: do not delay on the road, do not go back, do not deviate.

I wish I was a little bit taller.

Senator John McCain could never convince me to vote for him. Only Hillary Clinton or Barack Obama can cause me to vote for McCain.