I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

If everything is done for me... how will I ever learn?

People can think only in images. If you want to be a philosopher, write novels.

Solitude is bearable only with God.

Remember, you are moving toward a lifetime commitment. Whatever is concealed now will eventually be revealed.

Kelly, there are people in Somalia who would die for a banana.

I've done auditions where the casting director is taking the paper out of my hand in the middle of reading.

What I learned in politics (is that) it's a very enslaving place to be. It's hard to be free in politics and if the search for your spirit is to be free, it's hard.

I imitate everyone except myself.

Great improvisers are like priests... they are thinking only of their God

Sweat more during peace: bleed less during war