I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be..

It won't be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it..

The relationship, the marriage, the commitment, the partnership... This is the holy ground..

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not..

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is wh….

I know now one thing only matters in these days... true love... love and love alone..

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down..

I think there's probably a God-shaped hole in everybody's being. Even if God only exists in people's minds, He's still a force..

Bruce Springsteen's a rock star. Elton John is a rock star. I'm a folk musician. Honestly, I think that's true..

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done..

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you..

I don't find the songs; they find me. I just strum my guitar and wait for a lyric to come..

We all have to face pain, and pain makes us grow..

People are making a lot of music and higher and higher quality. I can't say the same thing for how people are listening to music. People are hearing ….

Let us turn our thoughts today to Martin Luther King and recognize that there are ties between us, all men and women living on the Earth. Ties of hop….

I tend to write out the first iteration of a lyric here and then go over here and make variations on it, on the page opposite..

If you're an addict, it controls your life and your life becomes uncontrollable. It's boring and painful, filling your system with something that mak….

There's been plenty of adversity, starting the moment he was born. He had a respiratory crisis, and it was touch and go for a week whether he would s….

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them..

I'm glad that I still have the ability to tour in Europe. I do love it..