I do feel most at home playing live, but the feeling of getting into the studio to see the new songs take shape was really incredible.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

Your father... doesn't work late for you to pinch his dinner.

No one is satisfied with his fortune, nor dissatisfied with his intellect.

We are not conscious of most things until we ask ourselves questions about them.

It may be useful to remember that a peacetime political machine is built essentially on patronage.

Black is a color of power and strength, and to see all those players, with the captains linking their arms in front - it's a powerful picture.

We must offer ourselves to God like a clean, smooth canvas and not worry ourselves about what God may choose to paint on it, but at each moment, feel only the stroke of His brush.

Sail on! sail on! sail on! and on!

A writer’s life is in his work, and that is the place to find him.

Being on top of the world doesn't mean anything unless you know what it's like to be at the bottom.