I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life... It's a religious thing.

Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.

The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.

I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.

If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.

Out in the west Texas town of El Paso, I fell in love with a Mexican girl.

I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.

Talent is being able to please people.

Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?

Jesus did not live in reaction to the devil. He lived in response to the Father.

but I don't want to wear a condom because I don't feel anything," and she says calmly... glaring at me,"If you don't use one you're not going to feel anything anyway.

Besides this earth, and besides the race of men, there is an invisible world and a kingdom of spirits: that world is round us, for it is everywhere.

The bad thing about falling into pieces is that it hurts. The good thing about it is that once you're lying there in shards you've got nothing left to protect, and so have no reason not to be honest

How to get rich ... whenever I meet people, that's usually what they want to know from me. You ask a banker how he makes bread. You ask a billionaire how he makes money.

I feel like weed is still taboo enough to be cool but not taboo enough that you have to totally hide it, which is like a pretty good place for an entity to be at.

Now run along and play, but don't get into trouble. George promised to be good. But it is easy for little monkeys to forget.

Unless discipline is rooted in nonviolence, it might prove to be a source of infinite mischief.

One of my biggest lessons in life is, we heal at the speed of our forgiveness.