I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

Don't just think, ACT!

In the rural South, you have a town of 30,000 people and everybody's pretty much thrown on the same pile of doo-doo. You just learn to make the best of it and live with one another.

Kind words toward those you daily meet, Kind words and actions right, Will make this life of ours most sweet, Turn darkness into night.

What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?

I do the best I can with any instrument I get attracted to. But they're just tools in order for you to express yourself and that's really the upshot of it.

We were just a one-room bookstore; we didn't have any money for lawyers.

Young filmmakers are supposed to be the young turks that advance the current state of filmmaking ideas.

I've taken salsa classes. I love dancing and I love to karaoke. So I bought a microphone with some tapes and my son and I karaoke. I know the entire 'Dora the Explorer' soundtrack.

Free your heart from hatred - forgive. Free your mind from worries - most never happen. Live simply and appreciate what you have. Give more. Expect less.

Because there are a lot of big cities in the world, people who live in cities have become more isolated than ever.