People like Beck and Shawn Colvin are some of the people I listen to lately.

I mean, there's times to rock and roll, and I love that too. But I think my first love is acoustic music.

Generally, my writing is influenced by living, by absorbing everything that happens to me and my actions.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

Teach your children well...and feed them on your dreams...Don't ever ask them why. If they told you you would cry. So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Teach your children well, so they don't live in off-campus group houses and throw loud parties while I'm trying to sleep.

I still have an insane drive to create and express myself, and it'll never stop because I don't know how to stop it.

The Hollies, after I left in 1968, had the audacity, the gall, to have three number one records after I left. Thanks a lot, guys.

There is a great correlation between music and images.

Being in a different band always brings great musical experiences to be able to draw on.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

The writer in her went silent and hid when her revealing words were wide-spread read.

Nobody enjoys the 'little show about nothing' humor more than me, but that is never the way I look at it.

When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.

Just because there are things I don't remember, doesn't mean my actions are meaningless. The whole world doesn't just disappear when you close your eyes, does it?

Don't make excuses, don't blame the past. The rest of your life can be the best of your life!

All art is a memory of age-old things, dark things, whose fragments live on in the artist.

Life is. I am. Anything might happen.

The longer you wait to launch an innovation, the less your effort is worth.

The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.

I have seen roses damask'd, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks.