The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.

I come from a food family, so you would think that I would be great at making baked beans or something, but I'm not.

I try to spend a lot of time thinking of what it is I want to say, and how I want to say it. Mainly because I know what it's like as a fan to hear music that is just exactly what I needed.

Music doesn't need to be perfect, but you'll know when it's right.

I have always heard that uber-successful people who write books about how to become uber-successful all have one thing in common: They all meditate every day. I consider yoga my meditation.

My biggest lesson ... was to try and create narrators that were believable. ...so the listener becomes really invested in the story or the song.

One of the things that defines a country song for me is that it's honest. It's not putting on a tuxedo to go eat at the Burger King. It's about a song being emotionally true to itself.

A person's destiny often ends before his death.

Most of us go through this journey of grief at different speeds

The secret to success in life is for a man to be ready for his opportunity when it comes.

We do need great change in Burma. We are trying to build a new society, a society where basic human rights are respected, and where our people enjoy all the benefits of democratic institutions.

When I was a kid, you listened to a certain genre. Now it's like, "I love indie rock, I love hip-hop, jazz, funk." Also, we knew it couldn't be the same thing each year.

I'm honestly as happy writing Superman Adventures as I am writing Wanted.

A vegan in a Hummer has a lighter carbon footprint than a beef eater in a Prius.

Even the most introverted person alive is constantly hungry for human association

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

I, for one, am tired of seeing movies about men damaging each other.