I also love fall, when it starts to rain, or even just before the rain - that is the most inspiring thing.

Don't forget that love is all you came here for, not anything less. Need I say more?

I think everybody, no matter what they eat, they should eat at least fifty percent raw food. But I eat some seafood.

Blessed is this life, I'm gonna celebrate being alive.

Follow your heart and you won't get lost.

The ocean inspires me because there's the energy of the water moving.

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me.

The mountains inspire me because they are just still and they have such a strong, quiet presence that feels very old.

If I hear a really good song it's like, oh man, I want to write a song that good. But the urge to create mostly comes from nature, weather and I think it just effects me.

Nothing has happened too fast, nothing has happened too slow. It has been a mellow rise, and I'm thankful for that. I haven't lost my head, and I haven't lost my desire to keep growing.

I think most artists would agree, it's one thing to be playing in front of a crowd that's loving it, it's another thing to add cameras, but it's a really cool trade off to be on television.

But whatever the reason, it felt surreal

Don't allow ambition to rob you of destiny.

They hadn’t been good months. About as ugly as a wet warthog and as messed up as a bumblebee in a snowstorm.

Whatever you think you can do or believe you can do, begin it. Action has magic, grace and power in it.

The jealous are troublesome to others but torment to themselves.

I refuse to believe that we're only here to live and die.

Anytime you get a chance to play some extreme character, in any direction, it's always a great blessing.

A moral rule is essentially 'advantage-reducing.' It prohibits you doing something you could do that would serve your interests at someone else's expense.

We wake up and are grateful for the day. Not taking away from the pain, because the pain will be there. But you live on.

I've operated and launched newspapers all over the world.