You aren't really writing about what you did; you're writing about how you feel.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

I can’t tell you what consciousness is, but I know I can only think when I am conscious.

There's nothing that's eternally satisfying except unconditional love.

If we go to war, it must only be with right on our side.

We have fought this fight as long and as well as we know how. We have been defeated. There is now but one course to pursue. We must accept the situation.

I've never understood what the upside of marriage would be for me personally.

Every Christian is called to preach the gospel. We need to take the commission seriously.

We are all shot through with enough motives to make a massacre, any day of the week that we want to give them their head.

Attention must be paid’ is the cardinal rule of design discipline, for the designer is above all someone who pays attention to the situation at hand.

Jimmy Stewart said he stopped making movies because he didn't like the way he looked on screen anymore. I'm more the guy who says I look like hell but I'm going to see where it gets me.

I'd prefer to be right than consistent.