I don't want an angry song with no silver lining ending up on my album. Then I'd have to play, or feel obliged to play, that song every night in repetition as a mantra of anger.

When you're in pain, you're genuinely very, very alive, and that's beautiful. Especially emotional pain.

I think that when you're open, you're at your most powerful.

Even the most deft pen is a clumsy tool.

When you're comfortable, you're not necessarily inclined to care about things that are contributing to your comfort. It's difficult.

In my heart, I'm always in my rail-hosen.

Unless you are in the willingness and ease and ecstasy of some kind of moment, you may end up the editor of your thoughts and of your expressions. I find I'm that way on stage.

I think fun is one of the best gifts we can give to each other. If everyone was having fun we'd be in good shape.

Sometimes, I have to really monitor myself, but the only monitoring job I really do on myself on stage is, Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Is this truthful? Ideally, I send it in a flow of truth.

What makes me deeply vulnerable? Probably the thing I suffer most from and have the most uncontrollable reactions from is still social anxiety.

What gets me pretty pissed off is the whole Monsanto engineered foods issue.

Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.

A kiss makes the heart young again and wipes out the years.

I need to live up to my potential, wherever that may be, in all aspects of my life. My head gets in the way, and I need to look at the big picture - that this is the best, and I am living my dream.

Only the poor can know all the disadvantages of poverty. Only the rich can know all the disadvantages of wealth.

To be entertaining and educational and enlightening, all at once, this is a good goal to have.

Eventually you get to this point where you understand what you want to do and get across and sound like.

Falling drops will at last wear away stone.

Singing seems as easy for her as talking is for us.

I was not a Mouseketeer, but a lot of people think I was.

I lived in the cultural equivalent of Tatooine when I was a little boy. I didn't live in London, I didn't live right in the middle of where everything was happening, I lived on the very edge of it.