Inspiration comes from everywhere always. But it's strongest in love and in its absence.

On tour I'm finding out that I am half gypsy, 40% vagabond, and 10 house cat.

I want to build a treehouse village connected by bridges in the woods by my house so my friends have a place to stay.

I think every tour stop on the west coast is equally rewarding for me. There is something healing about the air and the light in the west.

Even before I started writing songs, that was one of my goals to be a writer, and I still have that goal. I've just gotten sidetracked.

I don't really believe in plans. They only change. My goal is simply to be able to make music and live life in this crazy, falling-apart world.

You have to have a vision and know that it's worth seeing it through. Other than that, just be true to your heart.

I do what works best for me, but it might not work for somebody else.

There's a weird period of learning how to play guitar where your fingers are constantly messed up a handful.

I started writing when I was 17. I got an acoustic guitar for my birthday after I discovered Bob Dylan and James Taylor.

I took piano and drum lessons when I was young, and took a lot of choir classes in high school. Beyond that I just play by ear and learn as I go.

As fathers, we should have a desire to be active participants in our children’s lives.

That's what I consider true generosity: You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing.

Christianity is not about how to escape from the difficulties of life - it is about how to face the difficulties of life.

An effective speaker knows that the success or failure of his talk is not for him to decide - it will be decided in the minds and hearts of his hearers.

Some women destroy all your sensibility towards them by their coldness, others by their heat.

My ambition from the very beginning was to make a good part for myself, something differently to what lately I've been doing.

We must teach our children not to spend their money a dollar at a time. If you spend your dollar at a time, you'll wind up with trinkets instead of treasures.

Never underestimate the power of helplessness!

As the son of an immigrant family, I am happy to be a guest in U.S, which was largely built by such families.

Bond was escapism, but not meant to be imitated in real life.