I've got kids now and they will constantly pull you into the here and now - they are very present and very vivid.

True contentment comes with empathy.

Weave me a rope that will pull me through these impossible times.

I think quite a lot of people have a friendship or a love that's gone like that and it never quite reconciles properly.

Walking beside you I want for nothing.

Why can't you write a great pop song when you are 85? Maybe you can.

I think a good song is a good song is a good song.

I can't help it if I stretch the truth, not if that's the way it happened.

I'm a live performer and I love playing live.

Just like any songwriter, I love it when people sing my songs.

I want every girl in the world to pick up a guitar and start screaming.

I do some of my best thinking while pulling weeds.

A hungry mob is an angry mob.

To be brief is almost a condition of being inspired.

The passions of the young are vices in the old.

The best thing you can give me is your time. The easiest way to get me angry is to waste my time.

Avoid the man without compassion, because he ain't a man surely!

Louis Armstrong said you have to live a life. And that's right. If you don't live a life, you don't got nothin' to come out your horn.

Whoso has sixpence is sovereign (to the length of sixpence) over all men; commands cooks to feed him, philosophers to teach him, kings to mount guard over him,to the length of sixpence.

One of the treasures of nature is beauty; this, too, should be preserved.