The thing is, unfortunately, I write the best songs when I'm miserable.

Rock and roll doesn't allow you to grow up - especially if you're not trying very hard to.

You are only as big as your experiences.

I can't read sheet music, I have to just listen to it, and then just go for it.

Computers and the Internet have made it really easy to rant. It's made everyone overly opinionated.

Making an album should be an honest experience. It shouldn't be about trying to gauge where popular music is today; it should be about artistic expression and putting down what you want to put down.

Sing the song or keep it inside.

I tend to get my hands into all these other things and all these distractions, and after a while I start feeling depleted.

I prefer a three-piece suit myself. Very sixties rock and roll. But they're not too quirky. Businessmen could wear them.

Writing the songs and producing the songs and arranging them and recording them is your canvas and your palette and your brush.

Dead fish don't swim around in jealous tides.

Keeping ‘pure focused applied awareness of the Self (Soul)’ (shuddha upayog) is the same as being in the Absolute Supreme Self-form (Parmatma swaroop).

The only way to learn who you are is to leave home.

Portland is a really great city, especially because I'm a shopper and there's no sales tax! That really adds up so fast, because in California, a $1000 pair of shoes ends up costing another $100.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

You have an obligation to challenge your fans and your viewers.

All your renown is like the summer flower that blooms and dies; because the sunny glow which brings it forth, soon slays with parching power.

I have one thing that counts, and that is my heart; it burns in my soul, it aches in my flesh, and it ignites my nerves: that is my love for the people and Peron.

A father is someone who can't get on the phone, in the bathroom or out of debt.

I've always been at war with the guitar. All vocalists are fighting a war with the electric rhythm guitar.

Our subjective judgment of what seems like a good bet is irrelevant to what is actually a good bet.