Time and time again I can't please myself.

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

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

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.

Forgive your past because it the vehicle through your process and from this point forward your life is made of 100% future

Prisons are the temples where devils learn to prey.

I've always wanted to be a writer. Always been very creative. I always laughed at things that the rest of my family would sort of get angry, like not understand.

The passion to explore is at the heart of being human.

The portrait is one of the most curious art forms. It demands special qualities in the artist, and an almost total kinship with the model.

I also believe that if you're really a writer, you'll write, and that nobody could stop you.

There is barely a country in the world where you will be completely safe.

Tree limbs rise and fall like the ecstatic arms of those who have submitted to the mystical life. Leaf sounds talk together like poets making fresh metaphors.

I live for freedom, and freedom is a lie.

We need a more diversified portfolio of change-making tools so that we don't just get so freaked out by whatever's happening in the political corner.