My songs emerge from my life, or wherever they do, unbidden and unplanned and completely on a schedule of their own.

There are a lot of people who look great but can't sing.

I am having so much fun performing, I feel almost guilty. I think, my God, I hope no one comes and busts me for this.

Don't waste the time. Time is the final currency, man. Not money, not power - it's time.

I think ideas are still the most powerful things on the planet, and music is a great way to transmit them.

I don't think being angry is useful or healthy, and usually when I get angry, my brain just goes right out the window. Boom, as soon as the adrenaline hits, instant stupid. Just add water and mix.

I'm not givin' in an inch to fear.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

"It can't happen here" is number one on the list of famous last words.

Largely I write from life. ... I write from what happens to me. Mostly about love. People notice the other stuff more but I write mostly about love.

I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

You cannot control what other people do, only how you react to it.

There are two kinds of travel: first class and with children.

Everything is transient. You must transcend and transform for higher self realization.

When I was little, I went to a Jewish community day school for most of elementary school.

Make haste therefore, sweet love, whilst it is prime, For none can call again the passed time.

I believe that it is a great mistake not to stand up for people, even when you differ with them, if you feel that they are trying to do things that will help our country.

Be present in your work because kids live in the moment, so as soon as you're not in the present, you're not being authentic.

The weeds of socialism are better than the crops of capitalism.

Eyes are vocal, tears have tongues, And there be words not made with lungs.

The future is very much in our hands--in our actions.