So much time weeping and wailing and shaking our fists, creating enemies that really don't exist.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

We all know that crap is king, give us dirty laundry.

Armchair warriors often fail - and we've been poisoned by these fairy tales

Sometimes to keep it together you've got to leave it alone.

The trouble with you and me my friend, is the trouble with this nation, too many blessings, too little Appreciation.

I'm not easy to live with and I know that it's true. However, you're no picnic either, babe, and that's one of the things I liked about you.

There are people in your life who've come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it'll eat you up inside.

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

It's an inside job to learn about forgiving, it's an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.

If you should escape the censure of others, hope not to escape your own.

I do write songs with a political dimension to them sometimes, but I'm always slightly appalled by it when I do.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

Meaning, not beauty, is what we are after.

Generosity is something we learn, from our parents, schools and community.

I keep the bad-boy image just to make my fans happy.

If my goal is to become a movie star, me working at a pizza shop won't help me. I have to make the stars align.