I pick up my guitar and play. Something might come, and then the pen comes out. Then an edit, until something comes out that you're actually satisfied with.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

In order to forgive, one must have lived through what I have lived through, and may God spare her that.

Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.

I would wager that the number of civilians that were killed [in] a typical week under Saddam Hussein was probably more than we killed during the weeks we were at war there.

I don't think movies can ever be too intense, but people have to understand why you're showing them the things you are showing them.

The power that keeps cities of men together Is noble preservation of law.

. . . as people serve, they grow in capacity. The time and effort is not a sacrifice because there is returned more than is given.

The greatest victory is defeat.

How Cable survived Second Coming and what his responsibility is to his daughter, Hope, may have something to do with the Avengers.

The best contraceptive is the word no - repeated frequently.

Joys Are bubble-like--what makes them bursts them too.