It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

Making miracles is hard work, most people give up before they happen.

I was the kind to endure. No one had said you couldn’t become a better person through endurance.

You know, having been an election monitor in countries across the world, I can tell you that we would never certify another country's election if it had as many flaws in place as we had in Florida.

Women were afraid of me, they were scared to death. But I always say be yourself, if you're funny then let your sense of humor go there. I mean there's no sense hiding what you feel.

I took a step back. "Here." He plunked his wet hat on my head. "Don't go anywhere," he told me, then turned away.

Unfortunately, this is a free society, and we're gonna have people with trucks, and people with bombs.

The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.

I'm a mutt as far as music is concerned, because I listen to everything.

...One reason I became a writer was that I figured out that if you call yourself a writer, you can read all you want and people think that you are working.

There is nothing more serious than the sacrilege of schism because there is no just cause for severing the unity of the Church.

The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.