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.

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.

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

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

Change is possible only if the top management agrees.

I had no idea how to respond, and opted for a smile, which serves me well on most occasions (not if it's something to do with death or illness, though -- I know that now.)

I was very surprised when last I bought a packet of cigarettes and had to request a refund as I read a warning that told me "smoking can cause fatal lung cancer".

I was more than my limitations

Anything you dream [can] be yours simply because you've focused on the steps you could take instead of the distance to get there.

your luck line depend only On your Works

Start marching forward, even when into the new and unknown, and don't be deterred by obstacles.

There is nothing so simple as being the Self. It requires no effort, no aid. One has to leave off the wrong identity and be in his (her) eternal, natural, inherent state.

What makes this mentality dangerous is that when the team is held together by careerism and mindless partisanship, individual members are punished for thinking for themselves.

As a child, I watched 'Dallas' and that was my vision for my life for as long as I could remember.