The beauty of having a producer is that you have someone who says, You're finished.

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I know now that doors open as quickly as they close. That nothing very good or very bad lasts for very long.

It’s not love that the past needs in order to survive, it’s an absence of choices.

California ... is the place that sets the trends and establishes the values for the rest of the country; like a slow ooze, California culture spreads eastward across the land.

he's incapable of suffering for a long time, or being happy for a long time. Which means that he's incapable of anything really worth while.

It is within the power of writers and artists to do much more: to defeat the lie!

But then I never had to worry about a crash landing because I never even took off.

My job is to portray real human beings and real human experiences, and if I haven't had a real human experience myself outside of the film industry, how am I going to be able to do that?

I listened for the echo, and I heard only praise —

I've always said that I'm open to changes in the relations between Cuba and the U.S., but that Cuba must make changes also.

The idea of not getting a gun is not because I'm afraid of guns, it's not because I think guns are wrong, it's because it's impractical, it's stupid and it's exactly what they want me to do.