I think that, often, the people who can make you happy are right there, and having them in your life would make your life better, but you can't see how to do it.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

Never put yourself in a position to be made an example of.

You have great talent for great contribution to humanity.

Satan does not care what you know. He only fears what you understand and apply. In fact, his assignment is to hinder your understanding.

Humility and competence are the keys to a successful life.

Since being quite young, I've had a very strong sense of independence and survival. As a child, I was on my own two feet emotionally.

Britain's legal structure is basically the same as in feudal times: laws are written for the elite.

My sorrows are overwhelming, but my virtue is left to me.

Bad men hate sin through fear of punishment; good men hate sin through their love of virtue.

I've discovered writers by reading books left in airplane seats and weird hotels.

I think the greatest sound in the world is the human voice.