My music is how I feel, and that's changed from being twenty years old to being forty-three years old.

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.

I'm not interested in a persona.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

The way defences are operating these days, the other team'starts picking you up when you walk out of the hotel lobby.

At one level inspiration is the ability to see beauty and mystery in everything men and women do.

Always remember, with a strong enough will, even the weak can wield great power.

One of the things that all authors of fiction must learn to judge is whether - and in what detail - to describe the face of a character.

Dance to this and you're gonna get thinner.

You can't stop people from talking about you, but you can stop giving them something to talk about.

You'll find success in life when you stop trying to include God in your plans and Instead ask God to include you in His.

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

The world must be peopled!