I've never known of Wal-Mart to be a good neighbor in any town it's ever moved into.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Smoke rose from the barrel of the gun like a serpent crawling up from its wicker basket

Tobacco, coffee, alcohol, hashish, prussic acid, strychnine, are weak dilutions. The surest poison is time.

I think my love of music comes from my dad. I was born with an ear for music, like him, and started with the piano when I was 4 but fell in love with the drums. My dad always has music playing.

Bad guys need love too.

In the economy of nature nothing is ever lost. I cannot belive that the soul of man shall prove the one exception

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

It was like I’d stepped out into an afterlife. Only there were no angels.

In my own life I like to be poised and have a positive outlook on life, and I'm leading by example to my children and people around me.

I have a choice - I can either watch all the dailies, or I can follow the social media. I can't do both.

Oil replacements and then efficiencies in engines and housing and the way we build houses is a very interesting market.