I've played shows with injuries before but unfortunately cannot overcome having no voice.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Stay young and wild as long as you can

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

Instead of complaining, discover ways, tactics and tricks on how to reach out to people

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.

There are only two things to understand in this world. First is, one’s own True Self, and the other is, our faults from the past [life]. Won’t these faults have to be broken?

The arts stimulate imagination. They provoke thought. And then, having done that, all sorts of other things happen.

A sub-clerk in the post-office is the equal of a conqueror if consciousness is common to them.

What we know about who we are comes from stories. It's the agents of our imagination who really shape who we are.

Singing is actually something that I practice almost every day and definitely at the top of my inspirational list.

It's OK to be wrong; it's unforgivable to stay wrong.

Friends are like money, easier made than kept.

To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.