There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

For magic consists in this, the true naming of a thing.

In politics, the people I most despise are those who have no values.

You start with what you believe in. I believe in building a football club rather than building a football team.

I inherited depression from my mother's side of the family. Her father committed suicide. She committed suicide the year before I went to the moon.

Giving to the poor is an essential part of Christian morality.

To refuse political equality is to rob the ostracized of all self-respect.

True motivation is not getting people to play to their potential. It's getting people to play beyond their potential

While we pursue the unattainable, we make impossible the realizable.

If you will fear nothing, think that all things are to be feared.

You don't have to have more in order to be happy.