Watch our children while they kill each other with guns they bought at Wal-Mart.

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.

I think it's a message of economic nationalism. It's obviously one that has bubbled up before in certain pockets, but it's never been the sort of powerful phenomenon that it is today.

Trust me, high school ends. You graduate and get away from all the people you never want to see again-it's all good.

I love music and love a good audience and still have to make a living. Why would I quit?

How do you know, right now, that you are aware of being aware, or conscious?

There are two kinds: one takes the music too fast, and the other too slow. There is no third!

An army which cannot be reenforced is already defeated.

In many respects, people on the outside suffered more than those of us in jail. In prison, we ate three times a day, we had clothing, we had free medical services, and we could sleep for 12 hours.

Even the once simple home mortgage now has so many flavors and styles and variations that it is difficult for people to make a decision.

The tragedy of journalism is that these are people doing their best work.

The same thing happened today that happened yesterday, only to different people.