I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I feel connected to whatever is out there.

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .

I put myself into character for my songs.

Music has always been in me.

Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, “I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein…

Extraordinary people survive under the most terrible circumstances and they become more extraordinary because of it.

There is nothing true anywhere, The true is nowhere to be seen; If you say you see the true, This seeing is not the true one.

A lot of people have warned President Clinton that Bosnia will turn into another Vietnam, which would be embarrassing for him because he'll have to go back to college.

The earth has a skin and that skin has diseases; one of its diseases is called man.

Each person entering our world brings either a contribution or destruction.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

I am egotistical, that I won't deny...I do think I'm good - in fact, I know I'm good...but I know that I don't appeal to everybody.

I love my country more than anything. I spent 12 years in the United States Marine Corps. I know what it means to defend this country.

The best way to understand another person's religion is to listen to the story of what particular practices helped them to deepen and to embody their religion, especially its spirituality.