The key to songwriting is just to be able to observe, and put yourself in situations to be around people, and let those ideas come to you.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Stay young and wild as long as you can

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

I can see that the sadness has returned. And it's not a beautiful sadness- beautiful sadness is a myth. Sadness turns our features to clay, not porcelain.

Let go of your hate. It's not too late.

I try and make all my songs sound different from each other while doing it in a way that's still me. It's a tricky thing to do.

When I come residence from an evening out with my honey and my make-up's just a little smudged. I have many moments when I really feel lovely. It's all about having that inside confidence.

I'm against the draft. I believe we should have a professional military; it might be smaller, but it would be more effective.

Ideas really do matter. But in any organization a good idea will only go so far unless its proponents are willing to fight the political games to get the idea adopted.

The most important thing is not that my short game looks good, but that it feels good, because at the end of the day, what you need is to feel it, and I'm starting to feel it.

I was an art history major, but never specifically contemporary. I would say where I really stopped were the abstract expressionists in the New York school.

Success must never be measured by how much money you have.