I don't know what other people are like, I haven't been able to crawl inside anybody else.

Most of the music you hear on the radio today is developed for making money. It doesn't feel true or honest. You can feel it in the music.

If something bothers me, it bothers me for a long time until I find a way to work it out. Music provided me with a means of working things out.

Maybe I spent more time dwelling on emotions than some people, and maybe that's why I ended up writing.

And I've been walking 'round with memories way too long.

I honestly don't listen to a lot of music - I spend so much time working at my own music.

I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.

We got CEOs making 200 times the worker's pay, but they'll fight like hell against raising the minimum wage.

I've always written about things that cause me to feel something.

This is how it has been since time began: If you want to make something really worthwhile and true, then you have to suffer for it.

I've always been aware of having feelings that were pretty intense at times. I imagine most people have had that, or they wouldn't be human.

Like life, love is a constant adventure and a constant process. It is not a possession.

Take a risk on messy. Live Fearlessly. Love recklessly. Most of all, just love.

In the eyes of Buddha, there are no evil people, only people who don't yet have light in their hearts.

I'm of the opinion that Angela Merkel is a responsible politician, a politician who has a sense of responsibility for Europe and not only for Germany or for the - her political party.

I know that to be a true fact because I read it in Heat magazine

Gerry Mulligan and Chet Baker seemed so sophisticated and bad. I wanted to be like that.

The by-product is sometimes more valuable than the product.

Besides, wouldn't it be wonderful if no one ever had to worry about the random cruelty of fatal illness or the woes of old age attacking them or their loved ones?

Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.

Whenever I'm free, I spend time with people I love, people that inspire me in many different ways