“People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.”

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he’s AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you’re constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you’ll sort of be alright.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn’t work.

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.

Keep a good head and always carry a light bulb.

My songs always sound a lot better in person than they do on the record.

You can’t be wise and in love at the same time.

I kinda live where I find myself.

I started writing songs after I heard Hank Williams.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more.

May your heart always be joyful. May your song always be sung.

God, I’m glad I’m not me.

I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

Music can save people, but it can’t in the commercial way it’s being used. It’s just too much. It’s pollution.

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we’re all spirit. That’s all we are, we’re just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we’re going to leave that behind.

Anything I can sing, I call a song. Anything I can’t sing, I call a poem.

Dealing with my own life takes priority over other people dealing with my life.

Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

Take me or leave me; or, as is the usual order of things, both.

I want to be the first guy to help people accept everybody for who they are. I’m talking about colors, religions, sex, everybody. My music is for everybody, it’s not just for one kind of group.

I want to be the first guy to help people accept everybody for who they are. I’m talking about colors, religions, sex, everybody. My music is for everybody, it’s not just for one kind of group.

I want to be the first guy to help people accept everybody for who they are. I’m talking about colors, religions, sex, everybody. My music is for everybody, it’s not just for one kind of group.

Now is the accepted time, not tomorrow, not some more convenient season. It is today that our best work can be done.