I'm not a very spiritual guy when it comes to music. I remember hearing Carlos Santana say that angels helped him write his songs. And I thought, 'Really, angels?

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I believe the angels listen, God hears us pray. And I believe in a beautiful day.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

I keep things pretty simple.

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

Everything that happens, happens at the only possible time it can happen, and it is always at exactly the right time.

Now we live in fairyland. The only lightly disappointing thing about this land is that it is smaller than the real world has ever been.

On what strange stuff Ambition feeds!

We forget we’re mostly water till the rain falls and every atom in our body starts to go home.

I reject the idea that there is some sort of existential "clash of civilizations." I am an interventionist, but not a militarist. War should always be a last resort.

In the attention economy, anyone trying to connect with an audience must treat the user's time as the ultimate resource.

First of all, no candidate is going to win by catering to the alleged Occupy Wall Street vote.

You need to simplify the value proposition in the company's metrics for success on a whiteboard.

Lord, I surrender. I am completely overcome by your love.

Advice is a peculiar commodity. Those who have the capacity to give good advice generally have too much sense to waste their time trying to get rid of it.