When I'm having a bad day, I pick up my guitar.

I think its so cool that you can pick up the guitar and create something that didn't exist 5 minutes ago. You can write something that no ones ever heard before. You have music at your fingertips.

I was so adamant about proving myself for so long and I've gotten to the point where I don't have to do that as much.

I feel connected to whatever is out there.

I followed my heart and figured that if I tried and failed, at least Id know that I tried.

I was drifting away like a drop in the ocean, and now I realize that nothing has been as beautiful as when I saw heaven's skies.

I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate outfit.

Eventually my goal is get a place in Ojai where I can have animals and a big garden. Just drink wine all day and hang in my garden.

Something about the way you looked at me made me think for a moment that maybe we were meant to be .

I put myself into character for my songs.

Music has always been in me.

Getting fired from work gives you the zeal to make your own inventions

That’s all there is to life, you know. Fun things, we just need to remember to enjoy them or we waste it all.

We are all very ignorant. What happens is that not all ignore the same things.

I did that Grammys thing - I did a little freeform poem.

I hope that I will never forget the salvific power of joyful laughter.

One of the oldest secrets of alchemy is that every living thing, from the most complex creatures right down to the simplest leaf, carries the seeds of its creation within itself.

Every writer needs an editor. I don't care how good you are or think you are.

The mind, as you age, Is an artist, it seems. Monet paints your mem’ries, Picasso your dreams.

I will not enter into a public feud with Madame Callas, since I am well aware that she has considerably greater competence and experience at that kind of thing than I have.

When I began playing the game, baseball was about as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.