In life, I'm most inspired by entertaining people and driven by the desire to do it by such a powerful force that I think it influences everything I do.

My songwriting is so influenced by orchestrated music, dramatic, super glam rock-y stuff. Two of my biggest influences in songwriting were Elton John and Freddie Mercury.

But I'm warning you, we're growing up.

You can dance in a hurricane, but only if you're standing in the eye.

All of these lines across my face, tell you the story of who I am. So many stories of where I've been and how I got to where I am.

The purpose of it all is love.

The oppression of women is the single most corrosive and urgent problem of our time.

Coffee, whiskey, and fishing poles. That’s really all you need in life.

Colorado is an oasis, an otherworldly mountain place. I've played so many shows in Colorado that I think I'm the Colorado house band.

The mole can't live in your dollhouse.

My mother's a singer and my mother's father is a singer, and everyone on both sides are all country-western bluegrass musicians.

One day in the woods he met an Indian. They stood in the wet, cold woods and looked at each other, and they could not talk because they did not know each other's words

Here we raise his children for him, cook for him, bring up his crops, butcher his hogs - even fight his wars for him - and he still won't acknowledge our existence.

I like sets that feel small. Sets that feel really big are difficult. When you're on a big set it feels like there's constant mis-communication.

People in my books tend to get their just deserts, even if not at the hands of the police.

Anyone who writes down to children is simply wasting his time. You have to write up, not down.

The witches do not know the origin of their cult.

It's not food if it arrived through the window of your car.

If you want to be happy, live discreetly. Does that make sense in English?

When we sink, we become a revolutionary proletariat, the subordinate officers of all revolutionary parties; at the same time, when we rise, there rises also our terrible power of the purse.

Simple pleasures were all the pleasures that I knew as a child.