There ain't nothing like regret to remind you're alive.

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.

You can only work on yourself. Start there.

We can count on so few people to go that hard way with us.

The height of stupidity is most clearly demonstrated by the individual who ridicules something he knows nothing about.

From all those created in the image of God there is something to be received, and to them something to be given.

Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time!

It is my rather subversive opinion that a writer's feelings of anonymity-obscurity are the second most valuable property on loan to him during his working years.

You don't reach Serendib by plotting a course for it. You have to set out in good faith for elsewhere and lose your bearings... serendipitously.

The view of life I communicate in my pictures excludes the sordid and ugly. I paint life as I would like it to be.

We have not yet begun to fight.

No man dies for what he knows to be true. Men die for what they want to be true, for what some terror in their hearts tells them is not true.