I was brought up west southwest coast of Scotland and my mother and father had a music shop, and so I was surrounded by pianos and drums and guitars, and music, of course.

There's a fine line between character building and soul destroying.

It strikes me there's a bunch of people in power who have really strong intentions of running the world and adjusting the world to exactly how they see it.

I'd love to have a hit record. I don't believe anyone that says they wouldn't like that.

In certain ways I still feel like I'm finding my way. I feel pretty comfortable playing acoustic guitar and singing, but then I feel pretty good sitting on a reggae groove as well.

I had a very erratic career. I got very famous for a minute and then it just all went away, you know?

It's frustrating to do albums that you think are worth listening to, but it's just so difficult to cut through.

I like to let the songs speak so that they can go through some kind of rebirth as you play them.

I do like writing songs in a band. When it's rock, it's such a different kind of dynamic, obviously.

I used to drink a lot. I had to stop drinking because it was getting the better of me, and I replaced that with really doing shows.

Sometimes there's a general arc that you want to try and get better the longer you do something.

I am not afraid of death, which after all can't be far away. What does frighten me, though, is the halfway stage.

Learning means change and change is usually difficult.

...It is a well known fact that most artists produce their best work early in their career. They may refine what they do but you usually get the measure of what they are about on their first outing.

We'd like to think that our music will always be bigger than any one of our individual personalities.

lawyers never go to law, do they? They know better.

Buddhism is all about finding your own way, not imitating the ways of others or even the ways of Buddha himself.

log log log x goes to infinity with great dignity.

Chicago kept industry, attracted new business, became the center for convention trade and transportation.

I love domestic life.

Paradise belonged to the innocent. Which was why it was and would ever remain empty. And that is what makes it a paradise.