My wife is so very important to me that it's made my mom more important to me. It's made every woman I know more important to me.

There are so few people that wake up every day and go do something that they dont dread... Im very lucky.

I've grown tired of traveling alone, won't you ride with me?

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

If I could write rock & roll songs on purpose, I'd do it all the time. But most of what I write comes out slow and sad because that's most of what I listen to.

The world changes fast, and a lot of the old country folks have a hard time keeping up with it, and it makes them sad.

I've spent a lot of time in a rock n' roll band trying to fight off the fact that I was old enough to rent a car. And it's all sort of rushed in at once now. And I like it.

As my life changes, it gives me new things to write about.

Soulful love, is poetry in motion. A contemplation of beauty from the deep arises and the mere struggle to express the rapture of the soul.

It is easier to forgive an enemy than a friend.

Well is it known that ambition can creep as well as soar.

A hateful act is the transference to others of the degradation we bear in ourselves.

What's best about those seaside towns is that they are like time warps, and that's why people go there.

I think 'Hero' is not a real martial arts movie; it is not about violence, or formula.

A root is a flower that disdains fame.

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That's how come I write so good.

I'd like to see women get on to boards and run companies despite the fact that men occupy the citadels of power.

I believe capitalism will eventually be replaced by a communitarian ethic where the rights and care of all beings will be taken into consideration, not just the greed of a corporate few.