When you're really looking forward to something, you don't feel the sense of pressure.

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

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

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.

We express our lack of trust in God when we complain

Our choices in life are made according to our sense of our own worth.

Less time on trivialities that will mean nothing when you're old. In the end all that will matter is who you helped and how deeply you cared

It's one thing to carry your life wherever you go. Another thing to always go looking for it somewhere else.

I'm still on the move, I'm getting better because I'm still studying. I still want to be a better horseman.

They say I killed six or seven men for snoring. Well, it ain't true. I only killed one man for snoring.

I want the privilege of guiding the arrows of my children and giving them the exhortations that can shoot them into the high place.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

The mind is its own enemy, that fights itself with the innumerable pliant and ineluctable arms of the octopus.

As an artist I just can't think of a better life than the one I've been blessed with. It's just a great ride.