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

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.

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.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

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.

A person's practical experience can attribute him or her to teach his or her fellow learners the value of real life responsibilities and its consequences.

I've never felt that the American Dream was owed to me. I never felt that I was entitled to this Dream. This is why I laid the cobblestone before me for this Dream to be achieved.

There is no reason to design buildings that are more basic and rectilinear, because with concrete you can cover almost any space.

Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal.

Thirty years ago, the Pandora's box of the Internet wasn't yet a fact of life, and celebrities inhabited a more remote, hard-to-reach plane.

I came up with new leads for game stories by being observant and clever, by using the many gifts of the English language to intrigue and hook a reader.

Knowing that Ricky Gervais will never work again means a lot to me. I'm going to make sure of it.

When you're rotten about yourself, you become rotten to everyone else, even those you love.

My body's feeling sore, but my soul is feeling pretty good.

That whole thing of replicating what others do is a siren call. The sirens lure you to the rocks of unoriginality.