Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

In wars amongst ideas, doubters are the victims.

one's rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper.

The hardest thing to do in this world is to have a steadfast mind & will to be who God called you to be.

Stop being afraid of fear, let it be scared of you

I'll work to maintain my work ethic out on the road, playing my shows, giving 110%, keeping God first, my family second, and treating my fans like royalty.

The spiritual path is not one of attainment, but of return.

Stay true to yourself. People respond to authenticity.

Every organism exists as a vehicle for the ennoblement of water into consciousness.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

True love is no game of the faint-hearted and the weak; it is born of strength and understanding.