In Scotland, beautiful as it is, it was always raining. Even when it wasn't raining, it was about to rain, or had just rained. It's a very angry sky.

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.

Music is the highest form of philosophy of the conscious mind.

Although I'm sure there are plenty of tall, gorgeous, life-of-the-party guys who are also true to their wives, I happen to believe that a disproportionate number of them are cheaters.

You have all eternity to be cautious in when you're dead.

Man wants but little, nor that little long; How soon must he resign his very dust, Which frugal nature lent him for an hour!

One pearl is better than a whole necklace of potatoes.

Keep a small can of WD-40 on your desk-away from any open flames-to remind yourself that if you don't write daily, you will get rusty.

As expected: she, the daughter of the Fall, recipient of its heaviest radiation, loved atomically.

If you're gonna take in the love, you've gotta take in the hate. Or at least recognize it.

Character is tested by true sentiments more than by conduct. A man is seldom better than his word.

Everyone praises the views you get from mountain tops, but no one talks about the views that they block.