I’m not as cool as you think I think I might be – and the most important things in my life are God, love and peace. Everything else is b.s. And art’s kind of important, too.

You have to stay updated on trends, social things and pop culture, you need to stay with the times and keep evolving.

It was a great experience for a kid, because it was a bunch of kids playing on pirate ships and water slides, so looking back on it, it was the fondest experience of my childhood.

I've been to the top and I've been to the bottom more times than most people ride in an elevator.

People do not realize this, but my drug addiction was actually a short span of time. It was only for two years.

I'm a guy who's all about peace, love, and happiness. I'm a bit of a hippie.

I met my wife by breaking two of my rules: never date a girl seriously that you meet at a nightclub and never date a fan.

There are many ways of giving thanks. Eating turkeys doesn't have to be one of them.

I literally was famous before I knew my own name.

If anything needs to get fixed in society, it's people's consumption of other people's problems.

I've always kind of lived my life to be as much as possible a positive role model for children.

Love doesn't demand perfection, but it does ask you to give yourself with less reserve than you'd prefer.

Even when I'm in quite a happy state of mind, I like writing really sad songs. I think a lot of people do.

I've always wondered, like, what is so masculine about abstraction? How did men get the ownership over this?

Paranoid? Probably. But just because you're paranoid doesn't mean there isn't an invisible demon about to eat your face.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

People like to cherry-pick the parts of their career that they're either in the midst of or that they're the most proud of, but the truth is careers and lives are tapestries.

After 50, the rock 'n' roll road is a little absurd. It's very difficult to play these little places. You're out there on a rickety old bus with no place to shower.

Oh, I find it very easy to fall in love.

If we cannot heal in one way, we must learn to heal in another.