War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.

The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Life is a thorough university

Leaders don't need a path. They make one.

It becomes more important to me as time goes on to make every album the best thing I've ever done, so it's a lot of self-imposed pressure that also kind of slows me down a bit.

If honey bees become extinct, human society will follow in four years.

The man who has a girl in every port is not a sailor but a wholesaler.

Failure comes part and parcel with invention. It’s not optional.

What we do in public determines our reputation; what we do in private determines our character.

My mum taught me to have a soul.

I saw a sign in Boulder. It said, 'Live Music and Darts.' Chicken wire isn't going to help at all.