There's a lot of integrity with musicians; you really still aspire to grow, and be great, to be the best version of yourself you can be.

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.

If we had a penny for each time God smiled at us, we would all be billionaires.

I can tell you that the only ting in the world that makes sense to me right now is you and me.

wonderful people are made, not born – that the people I admired had achieved an unfakeable inner virtue, built slowly from specific moral and spiritual accomplishments.

The world is full of happy people but no one ever hears of them. You have to fight and make a scandal to get in the papers. No one knows about all the happy people.

I hate everything about airports from getting there to taking off.

For a long time I was interested in being a social worker. In a lot of ways I feel that that's all my music is, trying to help people.

Democracy is that form of society, no matter what its political classification, in which every man has a chance and knows that he has it.

Lack of money always means a surplus of creativity, in the best case.

All artists today are expected to cultivate a little fashionable unhappiness.

Marketing is a very good thing, but it shouldn't control everything. It should be the tool, not that which dictates.