In cities like New York and Austin, there's much more of a social context for music than in other places.

Time plays a role in almost every decision. And some decisions define your attitude about time.

The only reason we wore sunglasses onstage was because we couldn't stand the sight of the audience.

The avant-garde makes more sense to me.

If you're all loaded up on love, you haven't got anywhere else to go.

I missed out on my teenage years. I led a sheltered life. I was practicing scales instead of going out there and playing football.

If I'm interested in what I'm doing, other people will be interested in it.

What I enjoy most about being on stage is that the natural instruments give you a greater freedom with texture. When you use natural instruments they have their own resonance.

I want to get lean and mean, keep it minimalist.

Everyone should be encouraged...in spiration and artistic freedom is the cornerstone of rock and roll.

I learn from thinking about the future, what hasn't been done yet. That's kind of my constant obsession.

Be judgmental to yourself, but be kind and non-judgmental to others.

It was not a coincidence. It was not deja vu. It was destiny. It was my destiny to meet her.

Maybe the real miracle in any miracle is our ability to believe that despite our own depravity, in the eyes of God we are worthy of a miracle.

So I didn't have time to craft artful lies and evasions even if I'd wanted to.

It's easy .... it's a mind that is open to everything, yet attaches to nothing ... it's called freedom that's what it is, plain and simple!

I dumb down for my audience and double my dollars...

Enthusiasm is contagious - so is a lack of it. Joyless Christians are a greater assault on the gospel than atheism.

the path of goodness had a name it is called Love in it we find the key to every hope and has it's root in God Himself

I think a lot of people just assumed I came to L.A. to do more television and get into show business.

a basic “must” for every writer: A simple solitude-physical & mental.