I look at my hands and go, 'Hmm...what happened? Whose hands are those? Oh my God, they're mine'

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

What has you roaring like a bull with his prick hung in a fence?

Today is the day you've been waiting for.

Every man has his fault and honesty is his.

Life's a game-and I happen to know how to play.

It is place, permanent position in both the social and topographical sense, that gives us our identity.

I like to think that death gives life meaning. I like that philosophy.

He who fears God fears no man.

People ask me what book politicians should read. They should read the life of Mahatma Gandhi.

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

We have broken the shackles of conservative socialism. The growing middle classes want the kind of standard of living you enjoy in the West. So what I'm selling is a lifestyle.