Sometimes when you're making songs you just make sounds, and the sounds slowly mutate and evolve into actual words that have meaning.

A gentleman is someone who can play the accordion, but doesn't.

Don't plant your bad days. They grow into weeks. The weeks grow into months. Before you know it, you got yourself a bad year. Take it from me - choke those little bad days. Choke 'em down to nothing.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness. We are monkeys with money and guns.

I'd rather have a free bottle in front of me than a prefrontal lobotomy.

when your down on your luck and you've lost all your dreams theres nothing like a campfire and a can of beans

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

The folks who know the truth aren't talking.... The ones who don't have a clue, you can't shut them up!

You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

Most people don't care if you're telling them the truth or if you're telling them a lie, as long as they're entertained by it.

You can admire the way someone meets hard circumstances, but you can't admire him because of them.

And there is nothing more dangerous in this world, in any world, than someone calm, clear and angry.

It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.

Longer is not my best song, it's just a classic love song, and every songwriter always dreams of writing a classic love song.

My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.

Through music you can become sad, joyful, loving, you can learn. You can learn mathematics, touch, pacing... Oh my God! Ooh... Wow... You can see colors through music. Anything!

Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

First frost meant letting go, so it was always reason to celebrate.

Paintings have a life of their own that derives from the painter's soul.