I tend to like to write a song and then think about it for a while. I record a demo of it and then put it away and wait until I've gotten more thoughts on it or get sure exactly how to approach it.

This is what I wanted to do from the very beginning: write songs and make records and tour them with a good live band.

I read books all the time, I'm always reading. I'm not like somebody that reads really fast or a lot or anything, but I always have a book that I'm reading.

The fact that I have a lot of songs written doesn't keep me from wanting to write new ones, or new ones from coming.

I don't feel like I'm half as important as Elliott Smith or Kurt Cobain. And I'm not going to be somebody that became so unhappy that he succumbed.

There's enough adverbs in the world for you to start creating new ones.

I like the songwriting. I don't ever listen and then go back and change stuff. For me when I wrote the song, it's always really fun and exciting.

I can watch a movie about a person that can make me feel depressed or remind me of something else, and then later on I'll get an idea for a song.

I think music is a spiritual way to communicate transcendental things.

A lot of times, magazines end up presenting me as some type of weirdo, but I make my music for everyday people.

I'm not making any money, but I view it as some sort of investment, or like buying myself a great present.

He makes an effort to be more spontaneous on Facebook.

For the better part of my adult life, I proudly avoided nerd/nimrod/goober status. I was always just cool enough.

Least he's committed," I offered. "Or needs to be.

Our military has been greatly weakened by a lot of bad decisions and other things.

Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction, for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

Well I've written four beauty books as well.

We have yet to learn how to retain our humaneness when assembled in masses.

In all great arts, as in trees, it is the height that charms us; we care nothing for the roots or trunks, yet it could not be without the aid of these.

Although motorcycle riding is romantic, motorcycle maintenance is purely classic.

There is no greater legacy that we can leave our children and grandchildren than a peaceful and safer world.