I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

You are only as big as your experiences.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Great music is a great remedy for depression, but you have to drink it in with your heart and mind.

Listen long enough and the person will generally come up with an adequate solution.

Guilt is the one burden human beings can't bear alone.

You have countries like India that have tried to help untouchables, with essentially affirmative-action programs, but it hasn't fundamentally changed the structure of their societies.

Being vegan provides us with the peace of knowing that we are no longer participants in the hideous violence that is animal exploitation.

God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.

A man's life of any worth is a continual allegory.

I recognize the delivery of grace to my day, even if I cannot identify a specific return address.

Therefore for Spirits, I am so far from denying their existence that I could easily believe, that not only whole Countries, but particular persons, have their Tutelary and Guardian Angels.

Fund consultants like to require style boxes such as "long-short," "macro," "international equities." At Berkshire our only style box is "smart."