I have a positive core, and what I'm doing for music and Earth and the people is more living and less critical thinking.

Imma go to Starbucks in the morning for some coffee, if it ain't no girls there i won't buy no damn coffee!

Less opinion, more perspective.

Ladies, if you saw me jackin off in a ferrari would you be jealous?

You are what you choose to identify with. You have the choice. A mouse raised by pigeons.

I want the world to see, you can have a million stones thrown at you and you can still be positive.

When I was younger, I didn't even know how to walk. I was so self-conscious.

Let's stop fracking. Who knows about hydraulic fracking? I'm like, whodie, get that oil out the ocean!

Last time I failed is when I fell in love with distractions.

I'm a real positive person. Non-violent. Love everybody. I'm definitely an asset to the world.

Every single person you meet, look at them like a golden million dollar baby.

Romance is very pretty in novels, but the romance of a life is always a melancholy matter. They are most happy who have no story to tell.

File under "Hard Truths": the creative muse is fiction. If you sit around waiting for the right moment to create, you will die waiting.

When I see that people want to listen to me and when I feel that they are supporting the goals that I am committed to, then I am very pleased.

Making is always a slightly hopeful thing because once you've made something, it'll - the world will be different.

In me, by myself, without human relationship, there are no visible lies. The limited circle is pure.

....remember, a billion dollars isn't worth what it used to be.

That's what I paint, I paint people. They're portraits, but you won't always be pleased with the way you look in my paintings. Which is fine, I guess. Unless you're buying it, and it's of your kid!

Men and women, boys and girls, are still bowing to the image of peer pressure out on their own Plain of Dura every week in every city of America.

You're a chip shot away from everything you've ever wanted.

I realize that was becoming a contradiction in terms, especially after my friend Alison Krauss was shot and killed in Kent State in 1970 on campus by the National Guard.