I do feel a connection to the divine and to the infinite.

I create because it makes me connected to something larger than myself.

It's very reassuring and spiritual to be connected with something larger than yourself and the inside of your own head.

You are connected to something very much larger than yourself. And that's a beautiful thing.

There's so many different ways humans have used music to express the spiritual part of our nature and to connect us with the divine. So for me the pathway is through music.

We've been together so long, I hope it just wasn't the drugs.

I try to bear pain and not panic. I try to remember that it's got an expiration date, even if I don't know when that expiration date is. And I try to use it as fuel for my work.

Music has always felt very real to me.

I try to use pain as fuel for my work.

I feel like I'm getting better as a writer and as a singer and that there is more to discover there, so hopefully other people feel that way too without having to disassociate with the earlier work.

I think I had a tendency to get stuck inside my head and go to some very dark places in my mind, and get stuck there. I couldn't see a way to get out.

A true friend reminds you why you should believe in yourself when you’ve forgotten.

What we have most to fear is failure of the heart.

Dogs love their friends and bite their enemies quite unlike people who are incapable of pure love and always have to mix love and hate in their . . . relations.

I did smoke a joint and I did inhale. The bottom line is that's what it was in the '70s, that's what I did.

It doesn't always turn out. It's not always a happy ending when sometimes you say things that you think, and it goes against the grain of the larger group.

The cosmos will always mirror back to us whatever your inner state is. The greater the love we discover in ourselves, the greater the love will reflect back to us from the environment through others.

Our poetry emulates the recent progress in military strategy: Our army's strength is the foot soldiers.

When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.

Murder isn't that bad, we all die sometime anyway.

If I ever get bored with golf, I'm going to start over and play lefthanded.