I understand that transposing a song a half step can effect the believability of a lyric.

Music has always been my protection against the world, from a very young age. I feel safe inside of a jam.

We want to have a spontaneous adventure. You can't plan an adventure, or it ceases to be one.

Set the gearshift for the high gear of your soul. You've got to run like an antelope, out of control.

Ideally the point of music is community, not the player. Musicians are simply channels to link the audience to the music and to each other.

It's like you're surfing... The same wave that can be a source of pain can be a beautiful flowing grace and source of power. It's all a matter of how you respond to it.

If there's one thing I discovered since I came back from hiatus, it's that you can't go backwards.

I'm not trying to pull the rug out from under anybody, but the music really does tell you where to go.

Creativity is the antidote to destruction.

What happens if you start drawing squares? Well, I'd say the answer to that is, don't get famous for drawing circles.

My life was a complete catatrophe. I was very, very sick from drugs and alcohol.

I fell like a celibate hustlerA stained & sullied spirit...Halfway between freaky and holy

First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.

The great thing about the arts, and especially popular music, is that it really does cut across genres and races and classes.

People should be free to take whatever they want from music and I think that over time I realized that different people always find different things in my songs, which is really good.

Time is heavy sometimes; imagine how heavy eternity must be.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

Country music and just music in general really lost a great friend today.

Marriage takes your whole heart; selfish people can't pull it off.

In diplomacy, like in great many other things, the rules of engagement survive only until one remarkable person decides to break them.

Christ used death to destroy death.