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.

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.

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

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.

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.

You bound him to you with your courage and your tales. You hold him to you now. You captured a wild creature when you had no place you could keep him.

Friendship is one mind in two bodies.

Desserts are like mistresses. They are bad for you. So if you are having one, you might as well have two.

And I always read the English translation and always have conversations with my translator, for example about the names. I always have to approve it.

What has no shadow has no strength to live.

The greatest time wasted, is the time getting started.

All my friends' mothers were appalling women.

Deathless laurel is the victor's due.

I like playing dark, offbeat, quirky characters.

A man has generally the good or ill qualities which he attributes to mankind.