I'm a big fan of things in writing in general that are subtle, that suggest something without actually in-your-face saying it.

I'm not a very good communicator, so maybe that's why I write about talking.

I'm always shocked by that! I'm not the singer, I'm the songwriter who sings.

You start to do shows and people come up to me and say, "I wish more people were here, how come more people aren't here?" and that just starts to get a little.

[In Europe] they're really interested in you drinking their alcohol and eating their food and showing you around.

The truth about an animal is far more exciting and altogether more beautiful than all the myths woven about it.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.

Don't depend on anyone else to toot your horn. I mean, do you really want their lips on it, anyway?

God performs miracles, but even for a man to walk on water, action is required.

I will always desire to play with Bruce Springsteen. He's the most inspirational, most dedicated, most committed and most focused artist I've ever seen. I like to be around people like that.

Competition is warfare. Mostly it is played by prescribed rules--there is a sort of Geneva Convention for competition--but it's thorough and often brutal.

I've never felt the need to be defined by a man.

There are always decades that interest people. For me, that's the Roaring Twenties.

Let this truth go as deep in you as possible: that life is already here, arrived. You are standing on the goal. Don't ask about the path.

Before I fight, I always pray that no one gets hurt.