Love is the most important thing in life. If you don't have (a relationship), you're always looking for one.

No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.

Artists have really never had any representation on Capitol Hill, because it's not the nature of the artist to join together and make a unified presence. Those days kind of died in the '60s.

It's better to have three broken engagements than three divorces.

It's interesting when I jog, how much the music makes a difference. You can pretty much count on the Foo Fighters to get your heart rate up.

I try to conduct my life with a little levity.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

I'm standing in the desert, waiting for my ship to come in.

I think war is based in greed and there are huge karmic retributions that will follow. I think war is never the answer to solving any problems. The best way to solve problems is to not have enemies.

Let's face it, life is a constant challenge. It's full of unexpected detours that no one but you can navigate.

That feeling of freedom, open highways of possibilities, has kind of been lost to materialism and marketing.

I had always assumed that cliche was a suburb of Paris until I discovered it to be a street in Oxford.

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

You're my bread when I'm hungry You're my shelter from troubled winds You're my anchor in life's ocean Most of all You're my best friend

For what endless years this life will have to go on! He felt, with a kind of horror, his own strong youth and the bounding blood in his veins.

Things which are equal to the same thing are also equal to one another.

Natural abilities can almost compensate for the want of every kind of cultivation, but no cultivation of the mind can make up for the want of natural abilities.

Killing a defective infant is not morally equivalent to killing a person. Sometimes it is not wrong at all.

One of the characteristics of mudslinging is that mud sticks if it's thrown with enough force for long enough.

If you're lucky enough to have something that makes you different, don't ever change.

They are nations of eternal war. All their energies are expended in the destruction of the labor, property, and lives of their people.