I worked with a lot of different, amazing people, but I was always like, "Dude, I'm sorry, you're going to have to trust me, we've got to do it this way!"

I was always getting my way. I was always the guy saying yes or no.

There are are some dirty, greedy people out there, and unfortunately I know some.

We live in a crazy time. Every other week, there's a school shooting. There's always some nutty thing and I've always wanted to kind of understand the crazy.

Hysterically funny, amazingly talented people. That's what I think of when I think of Canada. That, and cold beer. And mountains.

I'm not a perfect song writer, but I am song writing problems with dynamics, instrument change and arrangements.

For many people out there in the world, music is the only thing that gives them relief, so it’s awesome to be a part of that tradition.

You kind of have to have a cynical thing sometimes.

I'm just a proud papa and it's nice to get that validation from my colleagues in the industry. You get up, you pull your pants down and you're like, "Here it is!"

I call my wife and talk to my children four or five times a day. I've surrounded myself with great people and friends, plus I'm always willing to make amends.

I must always march on in my life. What's done is done.

As the sun has endless lights, endless power, endless warmth, so do you also have endless love with endless power and, even better, your power of love and capacity to give grows by giving.

Jesus loved crème brûlée, but even with crème brûlée enough isn't just enough, it can get to be too much.

I was born Muslim, my parents are Muslim, I am Bosnian. I cannot be anything else.

I am not imposed upon by fine words; I can see what actions mean.

I've always been a person that, if I'm with a woman, she's in the picture. Even my son's mom, she was on my early (album) covers.

Expectations have a way of being fulfilled.

Beauty has been stolen from the people and is being sold back to them as luxury.

We should lay in a store of food, but never of pleasures; these should be gathered day by day.

It is in front of the the paper that the artist creates himself.

The art of living consists in knowing which impulses to obey and which must be made to obey.