I'm a husband and a dad. Two thirds of my day is spent being that character. It's a huge part of my identity and why I pursue things I do.

The reason I make art is because I get to make a choice about who I am, what I do, and what I put out into the world, the footsteps I leave behind.

I'm definitely musician and storyteller. But I always like to take an active role in things I care about socially and environmentally.

Art is consumed in so many different ways. You could say people don't stop to appreciate art. On the other hand, people can consume art more quickly.

I'm interested in questions my son asks me, like, "Why do animals fight? Why do you have to leave us to go on the road?" Everything he asks gets me thinking.

I'm in a position I never imagined I'd be in as a musician. Bob Dylan built an audience through recording and live shows. The opportunities for an artist today are totally different.

The idea of "making art for art's sake" makes no sense for me. Each area of my life, all the roles I play, influences the others.

A girl's body was a prize. It had to be more than asked for. It had to be earned, worshipped, and avowed.

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms I will no more believe than that the accidental jumbling of the alphabet would fall into a most ingenious treatise of philosophy.

Now I'd like someone to tell me there is no drama in real life!

In the future, a new generation of artists will be writing genomes as fluently as Blake and Byron wrote verses.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

...the role of the military is to fight and win war and, therefore, prevent war from happening in the first place.

Balloonists have an unsurpassed view of the scenery, but there is always the possibility that it may collide with them.

We gotta figure out a way to pay our teachers more. They're like surrogate parents away from home. They have such a huge responsibility and they're underappreciated and underpaid.

I'm not setting 'Jericho' up to be anything other than what it is, which is, you know, a piece of good, well thought-out, well put-together TV and entertainment.

If you love the life very much, you will see that everything is shining, everything is sparkling!