If you want to be a different fish, you've got to jump out of the school.

I'd never just want to do what everybody else did. I'd be contributing to the sameness of everything.

Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.

Johnny Rotten. He's a big fan of mine. I used to see him out in the audience in England and he'd stand up and holler. He's funny. Smart too, and a nice guy. Don't think he's a jerk because he isn't.

You can tell by the kindness of a dog how a human should be.

There are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers.

A carrot is as close as a rabbit gets to a diamond.

It's not worth getting into the bullshit to see what the bull ate.

I don't want to sell my music. I'd like to give it away because where I got it, you didn't have to pay for it.

I like the blues..... but I like aqua marine just as much.

Art is rearranging and grouping mistakes.

That's one of the amazing things great books like this do - they don't just get you to see the world differently, they get you to look at people, the people all around you, differently.

When facing a decision that stands a 50/50 chance of being correct, the choice made will be wrong 80% of the time. Rick Coxen

Many people want money but do not love to work.

The best way to not die with vacation time on the books is to stop worrying about what you shoulda done. Stop worrying about what you woulda done. Stop worrying about what you coulda done.

I realized that social media can be powerful force for good in the world and that acts of kindness can be scaled globally.

True beauty is in the mind; and the expression of the features depends more upon the moral nature than most persons are accustomed to think.

...A traveller is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from - toward; it is the history of every one of us. It is a great art to saunter.

Our natures are a lot like oil, mix us with anything else, and we strive to swim on top.

I love to write songs and sing them, and I didn't really know much more than that. Somehow it's gotten to the point where a friend can say, "It's very you," and that made me feel good.

Over time, I started becoming more and more aware of the vastness and complexity of the universe, which led me away from any sort of conventional Christianity.