I think I've just gotten better at learning how to write a song.

If you get raised up having everything you want and then get put out in the world and try to live your own life, you've never had anything to train you how to live.

Apparently, there's this whole set of disgruntled people but obviously it's not my intention to offend anyone by changing the style of music that I've done.

During a big rock show, you can flub a few things and nobody will hear it, because it gets buried under everything else.

Who I am musically I hope will just keep changing and changing.

I'm not a fast, stream-of-consciousness lyricist at all - I know some guys who are, and if there is one skill I wish I had, it's that.

I have an awesome church home and an awesome Pastor down in L.A., and I couldn't be happier.

Cause I enjoy both, I enjoy recording and playing live, but yeah, the rush of playing live is really something.

But I needed to prove to everyone that I was a serious musician.

Right, yeah, you know, my favorite thing just globally about music is just hopefully I'm able to be, you know, blessing the people in any way that I can.

Sometimes I'll get a burst when I write lyrics, it usually happens in 20 minutes and I'll write the whole song, and that's really the only way it feels comfortable.

For the human experience, life in the natural world seems to require the application of meaning, in order to evoke purpose.

A lot of vets like 'Good Morning Vietnam' - I get great letters from guys.

I can't really change my life to accommodate people who are jealous. I don't see why I should.

A democracy without faith is just a machine without power. Nothing can make it function except faith in itself, in the ordinary man and woman.

As a model, it's a gypsy kind of life: living in hotels, working all the time, ordering room service instead of cooking for yourself. There's absolutely no nest-building.

The definition of the right of suffrage is very justly regarded as a fundamental article of republican government.

The reason they call if 'golf' is that all the other 4 letter words were used up.

I did theatrical caricatures.

A wise man once told me that only by leaving someone good can you meet someone better.

I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.