We just were a band one day. We woke up and in the morning we were a band.

My life is kinda like a story that if I told you about it, you probably wouldn't believe. It would seem like fiction. That's me.

The best thing you can do is follow your dreams

COME ON, I KNOW THE WEIRDEST THING. THE WEIRDEST THING IS THAT CHICK ............THAT CAME UP AND ASKED ME TO CUT HER WITH A KNIFE. ISN'T THAT THE WEIRDEST THING?

Look at all these pigeons, think they can just trust us humans? You can't trust us humans!

You cannot fix what you cannot face.

I beat myself off 17 times in one day. That's the worst beating I've ever handed out. I was so sore that it was hard to get that last load out.

I'm outa here, I'm only playing one song, and I'm not coming back for ten years! And when I come back..!

Some people say you can get hepatitis if you do coke with ones because they've been handled so much. But I tested that theory out for about a year, and I decided it's bullshit.

There's nobody quite as mean as people being mean for Jesus.

God damn America for treating our citizens as less than human. God damn America for as long as she acts like she is God and she is supreme.

Every mountain top is within reach if you just keep climbing.

A leader helps others to reach their full leadership potential.

One word of caution—be careful how much you listen to the advice of others when in a deep pit of despair.

I love 'The Sportswriter' by Richard Ford. Ford really captures for me the bittersweetness of the quietly suffering American man. It's stoic, sad, and really beautiful.

Science, in the very act of solving problems, creates more of them.

It's not what you're faced with that's the problem, it's what you do with the situation. Your experience is not the important thing; what really matters is what you do with your experience.

If history teaches anything, it teaches humility.

Painting that does not radiate feeling is not worth looking at. The deepest-and rarest-of grown-up pleasures is true feeling.

He who has never denied himself for the sake of giving has but glanced at the joys of charity.

I would not have a slave to till my ground, To carry me, to fan me while I sleep, And tremble when I wake, for all the wealth That sinews bought and sold have ever earn'd.