I think if you're a good songwriter, that's what you are first - not a star or celebrity.

Music is one of those things that make us feel a little less alone in the world.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

Tragedy in life normally comes with betrayal and compromise, and trading on your integrity and not having dignity in life. That's really where failure comes.

I make a living doing what I love doing, and it's what brings me joy.

Very often out of adversity that's when the best work comes.

I believe a lot of disease comes from anxiety, loneliness.

We always thought we had to follow a certain theme but I don't agree with that anymore. I think the fans deserve a wider variety of music.

I didn't really care about sales figures. I just wanted to get things off my chest.

Do Tasmanian devils really exist?

I don't get mad too much.

A dead dog is more quiet than a house on the steppes, a chair in a empty room.

i'm glad to be alive in a world wherehis gently awakening eyesnourish the morning sun.

There is an end to everything.

Kids in Washington every year have the big Easter egg roll on the White House lawn. The kids found 300 Easter eggs. They also found about 10,000 missing Hillary emails.

The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.

An inability to choose is a hallmark of anxiety... The too-anxious artist, afraid to choose, will halt dead in the water.

We don't have to fight all the time. It can be done, and we will be great when we join together.

It's true that all men are pigs. The trick is to tame one who knows how to find truffles.

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

Dear God, I understand that if I fail to believe in you, I'll burn in hell for eternity. Thanks for being such a good sport about it.