It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

At the end of the day, if you follow the music, it'll take you on a really, really great journey

Be yourself. Unless you have the option to be Batman, then always be Batman.

We work super hard to not have to work

If you start planning too far ahead, the next thing you know you forget you're living today

All my religious beliefs are based on Star Wars.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.

Music's awesome, it's the closest thing we have to magic.

I'm an optimistic agnostic. I think the second we die, within a matter of seconds, everybody else arrives, and that's the party, and you live your hell on earth.

There isn't an audience in the world that Billie Joe can't command.

Happiness is what matters, feeling alive-not art or knowledge or money.

A great leader often sacrifices greatly in the service of others.

Trust yourself first then everybody will follow.

On the spiritual path, all the dreck and misery is transformed, maybe not that same day, but still transformed into spiritual fuel or insight.

All of us take an interest, to a greater or lesser extent, in what people around us look like, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.

When the stock market crash, a lot of people realized that the American dream was not all it was cracked up to be. They'd been living for this thing and it was kind of a façade. It wasn't real.

Shy and unready men are great betrayers of secrets, for there are few wants more urgent for the moment than the want of something to say.

When you release your faith in uncommon ways, youll see God do uncommon things.

There are seductions that should be in the Smithsonian Institute, right next to The Spirit of St. Louis.

It's correct that I wanted health reform to do more to create choices and promote competition.