The most important thing for me as an artist is having an identity.

I wouldn't be the man I am today, If not for those I've loved along the way

Funny how a melody sounds like a memory.

It's always the roughest path, but I think it's got the most reward at the end.

Stay young and wild as long as you can

I think too many people, if you are 46 you want to look 36, and if you're 36 you want to look 26. I didn't want to do that. I've earned the gray hairs. So I wanted to show that level of honesty.

Many people have come to think they can just wake up and have things handed to them.

Now me and my brother go to see him some times but he don't have much to say anymore. So we sit on his headstone with a fifth of Jack D. Here's to a long line of sinners like me.

The best advice I've been given is kind of the "dance with the one who brought you" thing. You got here on what you do so don't change that.

The evolution of the music is what allows it to survive.

I've always made music that was representative of real life.

Schoolboys are a merciless race, individually they are angels, but together, especially in schools, they are often merciless.

No one's going to see my mistakes; I just need the safety of these mistakes to lead me to the right answers.

There is a point in every contest when sitting on the sidelines is not an option.

I always seemed to be in the right place at the wrong time.

The District of Columbia is the one spot where there is no government for the people, of the people and by the people.

Community is the fruit of our capacity to make the interests of others more important than our own.

The story of your life is not your life; it's your story.

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

The HeartBreak Kid Lays Down For absolutely... NOBODY!!!

Instead of insight, maybe all a man gets is strength to wander for a while. Maybe the only gift is a chance to inquire, to know nothing for certain. An inheritance of wonder and nothing more.