To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

What's important is you wake up in the morning and something doesn't exist, and when you finish you day's work something is in the world that wasn't there before.

If there is anything more annoying in the world than having people talk about you, it is certainly having no one talk about you.

[A community chalkboard is] about knowing you're not alone. It's about understanding our neighbors in new and enlightening ways.

I'd love to get pajamas. Good, nice and warm flannel ones.

Oh, but Aunt Polly, Aunt Polly, you haven't left me any time at all just to- to live.

I say, dress to please yourself. Listen to your inner muse and take a chance. Wear something that says 'Here I am!' today.

There has been an effect of business rap on the output of today's rap music. But I don't think that's the modern day rapper's fault.

Start-ups should be based on radical ideas. There should be a high failure rate for start-ups, because if there isn't their ideas aren't bold enough.

Man is a great blunderer going about in the woods, and there is no other except the bear makes so much noise.

It is strange that modesty is the rule for women when what they most value in men is boldness.

The more you think about something, the more important it becomes, the more important it is to you, and the more important it will become to the audience.