Politics and music don't necessarily go hand in hand. They just do for me.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Me neither, ” Shane put in. “Homie don’t play that.”“I wonder, sometimes, if your generation speaks English at all, ” Amelie said.

I love looking up at the stars because they make me believe that some things in this world are permanent.

At least 50 times. I've jumped off a building, jumped off a cliff in a car. I've been in bedrooms when women came in with knives and guns.

Apparently, six women claim that Arnold Schwarzenegger groped them while working on his movies. Hats off to these women who admit they worked on Arnold's movies.

I know that you don't know, but you don't know that you don't know! By that I mean there are three reasons why individuals and businesses fail: 1. Arrogance 2. Arrogance 3. Arrogance.

While I was in college becoming a good Catholic I was also becoming a writer - one haunted by Catholicism.

There are times I might coach one or two workouts a year when the regular coach gets caught in traffic

People don't realize what they have when they own a picture by me. Each picture is a phial with my blood. That is what has gone into it.

Spring has returned. The Earth is like a child that knows poems.

Id be happiest standing at the back, strumming my little banjo where no one could see me.