Communicating with musicians is really interesting because everyone has their quirks and their strengths and their weaknesses.

I just understand that Im supposed to be one of those people that disrupts the flavor a little bit.

I feel some responsibility to shine light on things that I love.

I just like to be dangerous with what I try to do.

I'm not the kind of person who's always out at the club if I don't have to be. I like chilling. I think that comes across in my music.

I can't work without a Good L.A. weed. That's the thing you miss the most.

It inspired a kind of Huck Finn moment when I decided it was better to risk hell than shrivel in the midst of a toxic Southern Baptist morality.

I wanted to explain so much to him at that moment, but you can't give a six-year-old the perspective of a 40-year-old, not really, so I gave him the short course.

When was the last time you had a good belly-shaking-tear-jerking-snot-producing laugh?That long?

Perhaps middle age is or should be a period of shedding shells the shell of ambition the shell of material accumulations and possessions the shell of the ego.

God loves to help him who strives to help himself.

Oh, I think I've been entirely selfish with my career. I've done what I wanted to do, and not put myself out for anyone else particularly.

Nothing like being visible, publishing one's work, and speaking openly about one's life, to disabuse the world of the illusion of one's perfection and purity.

Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality; man, alone, can dream and make his dreams come true.

Even stupid people have a role to play in your life. They make you wiser and more patient.

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.