I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

I'm not scared of death, I just don't want to seek it out.

Self-education is self-empowerment.

If your life is a blank page, that only means you have room to write your story. You have the power to tell that story the way you want to.

Out of Gas. I haven't heard that one in a long time.

If you do nothing, that just empowers the gangs.

The difficulty of course is that I like women. It is only wives I am in trouble with.

My advanced age has taught me the resignation of being Borges.

The living carry us inside them like pearls. We survive only so long as they remember us.

If you don't know yourself, if you don't control yourself, if you don't have mastery over yourself, it's very hard to like yourself, except in some short-term, psych-up, superficial way.