People think they know me from my songs. But my repertoire of songs is so wide-ranging that you'd have to be a madman to figure out the characteristics of the person who wrote all those songs.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

In the deep dark silence, my mind dances with the moonlight and feels the joy of this precious ephemeral life.

I don't like touring and it seemed to be getting on top of me in a big way.

We live half our waking lives and all of our sleeping lives in some private, useless, and insensible waters we never mention or recall.

It's more important to promote a culture of life. What I mean by that is that I believe what we need to do is not change the law, but change hearts.

Two points that are very important points to remember and ask: Is it real and does it work?

Confidence comes from creating something and knowing what I'm supposed to be doing and feeling like I'm good at what I'm supposed to be doing.

I've always loved vintage and I never like to have something someone else has.

Never use the word “impossible” seriously again. Toss it into the verbal wastebucket.

A family reunion is an effective form of birth control.

I read a lot of books for information, like doctor books, spy books. . . .