On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

Like a carpenter with two broken legs at the bottom of a beautiful staircase. Maybe I can't climb the stairs, ma'am, but at least let me admire the workmanship.

People who say they don't have time to read simply don't want to.

Music evokes emotion and emotion can bring it's memory.

You are most beautiful when your eyes are glowing with kindness and joy.

I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.

For some reason, I have a very strange conception of time. I am constantly hovering at some overview, more macro.

I am clumsy, a late and nervous driver, and despise all sports except a little gentle dancing or yoga.

An education that teaches you to understand something about the world has done only half of the assignment. The other half is to teach you to do something about making the world a better place.

If I have a Sunday free, I'll go up the coast and spend some time on the beach. I scuba dive and swim and sail. A lot of the things I like are around the water.

Without faith, you have nothing. You cannot be saved without it. You cannot be healed without it.