There's all sorts of soul. There's Irish soul and Native American soul. If it touches you and moves you, it's soul.

A good mustache makes a man for many reasons.

My mustache has become this weird iconic representation of a certain era.

You don't want to pitch a tent and live inside the Louvre. You want to check it out, appreciate it, and move somewhere else.

Swimming upstream in the music business is a hard thing to do.

I'd like to do something with the Avett Brothers.

I have a great family, I live an amazing life.

I couldn't wait to grow a mustache. I stopped shaving my upper lip the day I graduated from high school.

We've been together since we've been teenagers. I can go away and disappear for two years, and when we get back together, it's like nothing ever has changed.

Sometimes, it's just great to bring new people into the mix.

You have to know when to strike and when to retreat.

Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?

I've become better at the net. I've got a 135 mph serve so I'd be stupid not to follow that in. Overall I'm a better player than I was last year.

… he remained restrained and strangely composed. It was a composure born of extreme provocation. It stemmed from a lucidity that lies beyond rage.

The Iraqi elections were an important first step.

Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.

I am home because I am a writer, but sometimes, when I'm not productive (productivity: the expectations of capitalism), I feel like a terrible housewife, or a sick person.

Young man, the secret of my success is that an early age I discovered that I was not God.

It is the same life that emerges in joy through the dust of the earth into numberless waves of flower.

I am always working on the go.

It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.