My dad was quiet, angry, shut down. So my thing is: I express everything that's there. I want to get it all out.

A song is like a saddle: you ride it for a while, and if it's the right kind of song you can sing it for the rest of your life.

Our imagination it is our greatest ally . . . Imagination is a very, very powerful thing. It literally invents the path before you.

The moment of drifting into thought has been so clipped by modern technology. Our lives are filled with distraction with smartphones and all the rest. People are so locked into not being present.

If you don't mark your successes, the day your ship comes in could be just another day at the office, and there's no poetry in that.

Well, everything about singing, I learned from busking. Everything I learned about songwriting, I learned from busking.

I choose to believe that there is good in people and that everything is a lesson. Our place on Earth is to go deeper, to somehow get wiser. To have spirit.

Our imagination just needs space. It's all it needs, that moment where you just sort of stare into the distance where your brain gets to sort of somehow rise up.

I've realized, you know, having turned 40, that rest is just as important as work. In fact, it's equally as important.

Do I create conflicts for myself? Sure I do.

I only ever really take out my guitar when I'm miserable, which isn't necessarily a very good time to do it.

The joy and smile of even one child is worth more than the prancing intellects of a thousand men.

Given that it takes up to 16 pounds of grain to produce one pound of meat, I think we can also go a long way toward ending hunger and saving the environment as well.

She's a total bam bam.

Learning to write for the theatre is learning to be a human being, because the theatre by its very nature makes you deal with other human beings.

Meanwhile myself et cetera lay quietly in the deep mud et cetera (dreaming, et cetera, of your smile eyes knees and of your Etcetera.)

I have really bad luck with my thumbs. It plagues me, actually. It drives me crazy! Both of them are very oddly shaped.

I think there was an overemphasis in the early stage on militarization rather than directly providing relief. I don't think it has any long-term significance.

How do you complete a painting, really? There are paintings by so many different artists that are interesting precisely because they haven't really been completed.

People look at me as spiritual... but I am also very logical, very business-minded. The two come together.

You want the world to be what you want it to be, and sometimes the world doesn't want that.