I have to stay positive and live for today and tomorrow.

I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.

There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some.

We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.

You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes.

I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!"

I worked with a lot of different, amazing people, but I was always like, "Dude, I'm sorry, you're going to have to trust me, we've got to do it this way!"

I call my wife and talk to my children four or five times a day. I've surrounded myself with great people and friends, plus I'm always willing to make amends.

Even in the mud and scum of things, something always, always sings.

Normal is not a part of my vocabulary. I am an artist after all.

We all come from women, and there's something extraordinary about the mothers who raised us.

Looking for yourself is like a thirsty fish looking for water.

Art, that great undogmatized church.

If the people we love are stolen from us, the way to have them live on is to never stop loving them. Buildings burn, people die, but real love is forever.

Society cannot exist without etiquette ... It never has, and until our own century, everybody knew that.

The whole Bible is the story of men and women trying to get back to God, to overcome that sin with sacrifices, good works, sermons, prophesy, witnessing, giving all kinds of things. It never worked

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

Are you unselfish? That is the question. If you are, you will be perfect without reading a single religious book, without going into a single church or temple.