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

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.

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.

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.

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.

A true dreamer dreams when he is awake.

Our miseries are inseparable, so is our every single blessing.

Perfectionism is adaptive if you are mindful of your humanhood.

Love hurts, Love will make you cry, Oh your heart still aching, From living a lie.

I wish to see, in process of disappearing, that only thing which ever could bring this nation to civil war.

I understand Hitler... I sympathise with him a little bit.

If you desire praise or esteem, endeavor to merit it.

We apply law to facts. We don't apply feelings to facts.

I believe that social security should be a universal retirement guarantee and not means tested.

Gordie Howe and Bobby Hull and Jean Béliveau probably looked at us in the '80s and said, "These guys are soft. We used to take the train."