Sometimes Lennon needed McCartney and sometimes Simon needed Garfunkel. You'd go mad doing everything on your own.

People say to me 'You've changed.' and I say 'Haven't you?' People change, it's just life.

As a songwriter, it's very hard to listen to music that's not coming from the heart and soul, personally.

If a song is longer than three and a half minutes, itll need something to keep you entertained.

I play music because I love it and I'll keep playin' till I'm old.

Stuck in speed bump city/Where the only thing that's pretty/Is the thought of getting out.

I would love to have been born in the 60s.

I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

Perhaps I’m not a nice person, but no one’s perfect.

I dont need an award to inspire me to keep making music.

Bob Dylan is great. Ive been compared to him a lot. I think when people see a person on stage with a guitar they just think, Bob Dylan!

Pride costs us more than hunger, thirst, and cold.

Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth.

Purity engenders Wisdom, Passion avarice, and Ignorance folly, infatuation and darkness.

I do remember, as a child, that I always imagined, when I was maybe 6 or 7, my fantasy was that everywhere I went I was being followed by an invisible film crew.

Life is like a game, Charlie Brown... Sometimes you win... Sometimes you lose." "I'll be happy if I just make the playoffs.

Building the future, and keeping the past alive - are one and the same thing.

When you're tempted to be upset, ask yourself 'Is this worth giving up my joy?'

You perceive I generalize with intrepidity from single instances. It is the tourist's custom.

We want manufacturing to return to America. We want jobs. Economic growth.

If there were no God, it would have been necessary to invent him.