I'm really good in a crisis, because I don't panic.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

The method of 'postulating' what we want has many advantages

No nation has ever been able to transform by chance. Its always a deliberate and conscious process

The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

Whenever a person dwells chiefly, or even frequently, on the faults of other people's religions, he is in a bad condition.

People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.

I think there's something about a writer's disposition, that is, even if unaware, always slightly in a witness state.

Sometimes with success comes some crazy that goes along with it.

That's exactly how it is in yoga. The places where you have the most resistance are actually the places that are going to be the areas of the greatest liberation.

COME ON, I KNOW THE WEIRDEST THING. THE WEIRDEST THING IS THAT CHICK ............THAT CAME UP AND ASKED ME TO CUT HER WITH A KNIFE. ISN'T THAT THE WEIRDEST THING?