The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.

What I like best about music is when time goes away.

More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.

Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.

What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.

The same song on a different day was a different song.

I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.

Dynamic benign neglect.

We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.

I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.

If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.

Our common humanity can bridge any prior expanse of disagreement between us.

A primary rule of practice is meditation with no objects or anchors. Just concentrate on the breath.

I love luxury. And luxury lies not in richness and ornateness but in the absence of vulgarity. Vulgarity is the ugliest word in our language. I stay in the game to fight it.

Teaching is a craft

Hang sorrow care'll kill a cat.

Perfection is the child of time.

I never liked to hunt, you know. There was always the danger of having a horse fall on you.

Wisconsin's kids shouldn't be allowed to fail just because Washington is failing them.

Modesty is a vastly overrated virtue.

I have always thought that writers come with any variety of attributes. Some are capable and some aren't.