Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

The lead car is unique, except for the one behind it which is identical.

Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

I love fashion! I love clothes!

The wisdom of our actions in the first three years of peace will determine the course of world history for half a century.

Some say vegetarianism is an alternative diet, but it is the original diet, the plan designed by God.

Man makes religion, religion does not make man

What is a man? What is a woman? And why do we have to be one or the other?

You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

It's really thrilling to work with an illustrator - your vision expands with the addition of someone else's artwork/artistic vision.

All this talk about atheistic materialism and God-fearing American I think is beside the point; it's a rather vapid form of religion.