My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

If you have nothing but love for your avocados, and you take joy in turning them into guacamole, all you need is someone to share it with.

I won't give up. Even if the skies get rough.

I buy records from all across the board. I get kind of a hybrid of influences in my own music.

You can turn off the sun, but I'm still gonna shine

Here’s to freedom, cheers to art. Here’s to having an excellent adventure and may the stopping never start.

Open up your heart and the sky is yours.

You come to realize that only one person can tell you what's expected of you, and that's you.

Music is a weapon in the war against unhappiness.

Life can't work for you if you don't show up as you.

Lucky to have been where I have been

Highs and lows make you feel that things matter, but they're nothing." "So what's something?" "Being reliable is something. Being good.

It's a funny thing: You want so badly for people to see what you do - you're proud of it - and I like the effect that movies have on people. But the attention can also make me uncomfortable.

I would like to play every day. Whether or not that happens, we'll see.

I think I should get a bigger between-the-song persona, so then I'm not wandering around the stage like some mad old auntie that's saying hello to people and falling over.

Whatever the hateful do to the hateful, or an enemy to an enemy, worse is the harm of a misguided mind directed at oneself.

I plan on winning the Super Bowl next year.

I feel things can always be funny, but that's probably because I have some kind of leftover childhood need to make people laugh. For somebody like me, that's the thing you excel at.

Socialism is just another form of religion, and thus delusional.

When I was young, I learned very early on that I could make my mother laugh. And that was one of the greatest sounds I ever heard.

God's Word is pure and sure, in spite of the devil, in spite of your fear, in spite of everything.