I like to think that I'm not old yet.

We don’t need more ‘What if the mother is going to die’ debated, we need ‘I had an abortion because I was not ready to be a mother. It was my choice and my right. I own it. Back the f@#( up.

If you want to be noticed as a drop of water, why would you move to the ocean?

Country music is completely punk-rock. It's the original punk-rock.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

You're not supposed to totally know what's happening. The songs are supposed to give you clues so you can fill in the blanks.

The Worse Things Get, The Harder I Fight. The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You.

I would be a huge hypocrite if I didn't tell you that at one time in my life I thought the way that you made music was you got on a major label and you got famous.

Playing in an independent rock band will eventually make you equal parts truck driver, gladiator and mule. Glamour is for those with trust funds.

We shouldn't censor ourselves based on the weak idea of "looking cool." It's such a waste of potential awesomeness.

I grew up with lots of animals and I related more to them than I did to people. I feel a lot of empathy for them.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

How often I found where I should be going only by setting out for somewhere else.

Certainly my parents were Dr. [Benjamin] Spock-driven parents. So they were tolerant.

I just hate going to the gym, unless I need to do cardio once in a while. I think gymming makes you stiff and takes your aura away.

You shouldn't have a profit motivation to fill prison cells with young Americans.

Happiness is like a cake: have too much of it and you get sick of it.

In all countries with a settled bureaucracy people used to say: The cabinets come and go, but the bureaus remain.

Success is when reality catches up to your imagination.

Nothing is better than the unintended humor of reality.

We're living in a state where no one can trust his telephone conversations, nor even his personal conversations in a room, in a bar or anywhere else.