In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

He'd kept this silence because his own secrets were darker, more hidden, and because he believed that his secrets had created hers.

You are truly the most expensive girl in all God’s creation. And the most precious.

In Africa, when an old man dies, it's a library burning.

Illness or pain is just an extension of negative emotion. When you are no longer feeling any resistance to it, it's a non-issue.

You have to be on the pitch to play football.

As you have sown so shall you reap.

None but the dead are permitted to tell the truth.

We're animals. We're violent. We're criminal. And if I've done anything, I've had kids express themselves as they are.

Have I tried it? Probably in one of my drunken stupors...

I've always been interested in people, but I've never liked them.