If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

Strong people don't put others down. They lift them up and slam them on the ground for maximum damage.

A kiss is the only object you can throw at someone without being held criminally responsible.

Every day we wake up, we have an opportunity to do some good, but there's so much bad that you have to navigate to get to the good.

Don't necessarily avoid sharp edges. Occasionally they are necessary to leadership.

There are, of course, people who didn't create the trouble they're in, but lots of them do.

Take time to be still, in a hallowed place in nature, and you'll discover that you are connected to everything.

You may tell a tale that takes up residence in someone's soul

To work on the actual location I think is great. This thing of going to Canada and pretending you're in New York, it's terrible.

Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.

When it comes to their kids, parents are all just instinct and hope. And fear. Rules and laws fly straight out the window.