A baseball team is like a band. Because, conceptually, there are no heroes in baseball - there's just the team.

It's hard to make out the difference between insults and bad advice.

Try to keep your mind. Try not to eat bad, try not to wake up with too bad of a hangover.

I think I prefer singing in falsetto. I like the way it sounds. It doesn't sound like my natural voice. It sounds like a character.

I project love, music and love, and I pray for peace. A good song cuts straight to the heart; sometimes it doesn't need to be too many lines - of course, I do love a good story.

Opinions only carry weight in the second or third person.

I don't need to control anything. Even with romantic partnerships, I don't need to control anyone.

I'm making music with my friends. It's fun. It should be fun. You shouldn't make music if it isn't fun.

Everyone wants to be well-loved and appreciated but, at the same time, there are some people that just don't want to be your friend, and there's nothing you can do or say to change that.

Elvis Presley wore a Star of David and a cross around his neck and, when someone asked him about it, he said, "It makes me think." I love that quote. It's simple. It's beautiful. It's true.

I just like writing lyrics. I find a little satisfaction in performing live, making records. But primarily, I just try to write every day.

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Human beings are unable to be honest with themselves about themselves. They cannot talk about themselves without embellishing.

If I am building a mountain and stop before the last basketful of earth is placed on the summit, I have failed.

The only thing I can count on daily is the unexpected.

Fail miserably, achieve greatly!

Not knowing what's happening, from script to script, as an actor and as a character, lends itself to the same tension and anxiety of not knowing what's happening.

You have to believe in what you're doing otherwise what's the point?

I sit in my loft with the haves and look out at the have-nots - the bottom of the bottom - and I have to rationalize it, ... Am I pushing out the homeless?

Religion may be purified. This great work was begun two hundred years ago: but men can only bear light to come in upon them by degrees.

Most of the major mistakes I made in my life, I made when I was too tired to know what I was doing - both personally and professionally.