Life for the Christian is a dialogue with God.

The only thing worth stealing is a kiss from a sleeping child.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.

I think that what trips up a lot of great musicians is that they become involved with too many things that aren't where their strengths lie.

As it turns out, as an adult I can have a very unpleasant, fierce and unforgiving temper at times. But I don't think I had that when I was a kid.

I need to go someplace faraway that doesn't have telephones and doesn't have a record player and doesn't have movie theaters and people walking down the street in order to not do anything.

The Beatles looked like they were in show business, and that was the important thing. And the important thing for the Rolling Stones was to look as if they were not.

Differences were meant not to divide but to enrich.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

You have to jump into the pool before you know whether there's water in it.

It is more rewarding to be complicit with scarcity than excess.

Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

Pray always for grace and strength.

I say that I get paid to travel, and I play the shows for free.

The second time I was banned was when I directed a film called Xiu Xiu. I was banned for three years from China.

Songwriting is my main thing. I know that I'll do that for the rest of my life.

Follow Through is elegant, sure footed, smart—a nest of sticks that won’t stay sticks—a nest of sticks that snowballs—scary and marvelous.

Of all the black crimes that humanity is committing against the great Creation, vivisection is the blackest.

I think we have gone too far into the PC culture. But there's a limit to how far we can take that.

You really don't settle on an idea until you're really sure it's the best idea. Then once you settle on it you commit to it entirely. That was always the plan.