Step out the front door like a ghost into the fog where noone notices the contrast of white on white.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

Breaking a sweat through our difficulties minimized the likelihood of a crippling injury to our faith.

If it makes you happy, then you succeeded already.

Life only demands from you the strength that you possess. Only one feat is possible not to run away.

Well, the hardest thing to do, as we know from our own experience on 9/11 is protect everything all the time.

If you are swept off your feet, it's time to get on your knees.

I envy those writers who outline their novels, who know where they're going. But I find writing is a process of discovery.

Psychoanalysis is the mental illness it purports to cure

Your work is carved out of agony as a statue is carved out of marble.

A garden is a symbol of man's arrogance, perverting nature to human ends.

I know you can be fined for throwing a club, but I want to know if you can get fined for throwing a caddie?