Now the wren has gone to roost and the sky is turnin' gold Turnin' from the past, at last and all I've left behind.

Don't let your eyes refuse to seeDon't let your ears refuse to hear

Well, I looked my demons in the eyes laid bare my chest, said 'Do your best, destroy me. You see, I’ve been to hell and back so many times, I must admit you kind of bore me.

There's nothing in the world so sad as talking to a man who never knew his life was his for making.

We all have that inner voice that is wise, even if we don't always follow it. It's that voice I'm trying to listen to.

Well it's the hurt I hide that fuels the fires inside me

You can make bad choices and find yourself in a downward spiral or you can find something that gets you out of it.

I am very self-critical, but that's a good thing because it keeps me growing as a human being and as a musician.

Every song asks to be sung in a different way.

You have to believe in yourself before anybody else believes in you.

The thing I love about music is that you can take things that are painful, deep things that hurt you, and you can turn them into something beautiful.

The really important thing to be was yourself, just as hard as you could.

Hallucinatory - that's just the way everyday life is, in Colombia. All the time, you say to yourself, did I just see that?

Man is still a savage to the extent that he has little respect for anything that cannot hurt him.

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

Wealthy people understand we're one America, and we do best when we're all together.

The Iraqis have become invested in their nationhood.

The symbol of the religion of Jesus is the cross, not the scales.

The machinery of government is a vast series of interlocking hierarchies riddled through and through with incompetence.

Winner knows nothing about food.

Why do people criticise his intelligence when he can do something as miraculous as that?