There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

I believe in this country [the USA], I love this country, I believe in the idea of this country, and this country is an idea.

There will never be another you. The planet desperately needs your unique purpose, passion and presence.

I certainly respect other people's opinions, but I would not vote for a woman to be the pastor of a church.

A 0-0 is like a Sunday without sun.

What I've seen in my own life is that when I get something important done it's because of a lot of other people - some who get credit, some who don't.

Better freedom and a chilly road than a warm hearth and servitude.

Daylight seemed then to be the physical manifestation of common sense.

I'm always looking at ways of shaking up the writing experience because I think it helps.

I set it off with my own rhyme / cause I'm as ill as a convict who kills for phone time

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

I had to prepare physically every day, and I didn't leave many scraps for the writers