I wasnt thinking of the longevity of any of my songs, but I am extremely pleased with the lasting effect.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

...how are you sacred to me? your lines are golden threads - your patter, my patten - I explore the liturgy of your words...

I didn't belong in this world anymore. It's not that I wanted to be dead, I just felt like I should be.

Every time I make American film I just trust American directors and American writers.

Postmodernism is a freewheeling, unfettered, and unapologetic pursuit of style.

The 2000s were marked by terrorism and a bipartisan desire to fight it.

Man has gone long enough, or even too long, without being man enough to face the simple truth that the trouble with man is man.

There seems to be so much more winter than we need this year.

I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.

It’s the little things that make us who we are in the bigger world.

Move every day. Like taking a shower and brushing your teeth. Make it a part of your everyday life.