Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

When you get your, 'Who am I?', question right, all of your, 'What should I do?' questions tend to take care of themselves

It is the local community that needs to own the commitment to education.

To me the thing with 'Grease' was that it was the first movie that as a kid I wanted to get up and do what they were doing.

When I was 17, I signed my record deal and passed my driver's test. It was a very good year!

Scarlett Johansson. I think people don't really realize how great of an actress that girl is. She's so beautiful and that distracts you from what she can do as an actor.

Let the young know they will never find a more interesting, more instructive book than the patient himself.

In the shadow of death he produces life, and though the senses are terrified, faith taking all for the best, is full of courage and assurance.

Lu-cy...you have some s'plainin' to do. ~Gem

Character is destiny and character is important to American campaigns.

Imagine taking off your makeup and nobody knows who you are.