I've always written songs, even when I wasn't doing anything with my personal life in music.

When I was a kid, I went from ground zero to Pluto. The first place I played was the Houston Astrodome.

Don't believe your own publicity. You can't; you'll start thinking that you're better than you are.

Each song is a lifetime, it begins and ends, and there's a journey taken within the songs.

I'm not a slave to anything anymore. And I never will be again.

I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

I have no problem with starting from scratch.

I've come to understand that there's always something positive, even in a negative situation.

Stop doing what the record companies are doing and do what's in your heart.

They had me doing Beach Boys remakes and all that. I was basically a marionette.

I have an extremely addictive personality. I'm an extremist.

One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words.

It is better to have a hen tomorrow than an egg today.

The nice thing about having relatives' kids around is that they go home.

A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills.

I'm happy and I have a great life.

Money is like love; it kills slowly and painfully the one who withholds it, and enlivens the other who turns it on his fellow man.

Independent film is not only an oxymoron; it doesn't exist anymore.

I was inspired to write children's books, but without blood and gore.

Our focus on discrimination against women during the past 30 years has blinded us to opportunities for women.