I dont need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out.

I would love to have been born in the 60s.

I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

Perhaps I’m not a nice person, but no one’s perfect.

Bob Dylan is great. Ive been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, Bob Dylan!

I could never pretend something I didn't feel. I could never make love if I didn't love, and if I loved I could no more hide the fact than change the color of my eyes.

Speaking a painful truth should be done only in love - like wielding a sword with no hilt - it should pain oneself in direct proportion to the amount of force exerted.

Certainly there is life and there is death, but even in death, if we look closely enough, we will find grace.

I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.

If you'd asked me a few years ago about debt settlement companies, I probably would have told you to avoid them.

People that want it to just be funny should not despair, because there is so much true crazy comedy coming up.

I had done a little bit one other time. This character [in Jack Reacher] is a psychopath, but I had been hired by Carlton Cuse and Randall Wallace.

I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.

Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

Other top-level politicians do not express their global warming doubts because a whip of political correctness strangles their voice.