Whether it's about children or not, we have to move forward.

Always remember there is nothing worth sharing, like the love that let us share our name.

Sometimes I'm extremely afraid of the unknown, but I'm so grateful to be on that journey.

In the world of music, the audience is not just fans of music; they're fans of many things.

I think everyone on the planet is a fan of a painting because everyone is a fan of visual stimulation, but I've had freedom in the world [of painting] because I've kept it to myself.

In the music world, when we're making work, we are obligated to no longer be completely free from what we are to someone else - sort of like an athlete, where you become a role model to someone.

We have to continue to grow within and outwardly. We have to keep going.

One of the things that I love about painting is that I never consider myself to have an audience.

I have always considered myself an artist and painting was the first medium that I claimed.

To me, humor is part of a conversation with an audience.

When it comes to performing and entertaining, the art removes itself from the writing.

The truest greatness lies in being kind, the truest wisdom in a happy mind.

Why is it that at the very moment I need to appear graceful I stumble and fall like a klutz, as though this scene had never played through my mind differently a million times?

I'm not that fluid when it comes to scales and modes. I just pick up the guitar and play. It's all about exploration: just tune the guitar any way you want and start playing.

To be dull is easy, to be active requires tremendous work.

I think the work is always going to be much better when it's important and personal to you.

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.

The brain is an island in an osmotically homogeneous sea.

Everything you do is autobiographical. Yeah, I grew up in a town called Redding and I had older brothers and sisters so it's all my memories of growing up.

Every word I say, you can document it and put it in the history books.

The things that are more my own style are something that I don't really have to think about. The only time I have to think about them is if I want to force myself not to do it the way I do it.