This is America - you're allowed to say and do what you want and what you say and do defines who you are as a person.

Bagel in the morning is the ultimate breakfast for me; they're just good.

I love Soundgarden, I love Rage Against the Machine, Simon & Garfunkel.

Doing charity work is always cool. It's always a good thing.

I think I can connect with an audience because I know what it's like to be on the other side of it and I really remember all of that.

I overthink a lot of things.

Writing on the road is a passion of mine.

My music comes from my emotion, always.

I'm not interested in just putting out one hit.

I'm not the guy that thinks I'm a perfect singer.

I'm the first one to admit, I'm a pretty unorthodox guitar player.

Love is the spirit of divinity within every man.

Compare yourself only with the word of God.

Sometimes even the imagination lets one down.

How do poems grow? They begin deep down in the pit of the soul as a seedling of a thought …

It is a big world that we live in, and people have a choice to love who they love.

It was actually fun to write [memoir], because I went back to interview people my parents had taught or who had worked with them, and I learned a lot about them that I hadn't known.

I believe in the power that not only allows the sun to rise but turns seeds into flowers and dreams into realities.

I'm very much in support of the free press, but the free press ought to be educational and informative. And I believe they have fallen down recently on that.

Only around 2% of the earth's surface is cultivatable land.

It's sadness coming on like the old days, the vast seamless hopeless weight of sadness looking for a place to rest.