“She says that her love for me would never die, but that would change if she found out about you and I.”

The idea of putting out an album is quite exciting because it’s sharing your creativity with people. There’s no ambition to be famous. I couldn’t care less about that.

I watch everybody every night, from sitting down to being on their feet at the end, and I feel a sense of reinvention, of caring, presenting these songs in their purest form.

I think all my videos suck.

Sometimes, you know, bad is good.

Difficulties are opportunities to better things; they are stepping-stones to greater experience…When one door closes, another always opens; as a natural law it has to, to balance.

I don’t like long tours. I find it much easier to go out for a short spurt every month.

My father’s a character.

I like to be able to present myself in two or three different ways because I’ve never really wanted to rest on my laurels and be something that people expected.

Trying to manage diabetes is hard because if you don’t, there are consequences you’ll have to deal with later in life.

Sometimes when I play that old six-string, I think about you, wonder what went wrong.

When your world has shattered, ain’t nothing else matters. It ain’t over, it’s only love and that’s all.

I do 100 shows a year, but I do it in fits and starts, as opposed to going on a long run.

I got reckless baby, put you in your place. Next time, maybe rearrange your face.

Search your heart, search your soul, and when you find me there you’ll search no more.

Show charity and goodwill to others and it will return to enhance your own life in many wonderful ways.

I’m amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it’s changed. You go away for a month and there’s three more skyscrapers.

You’ve got the words to change a nation but you’re biting your tongue.

Without a home must the soldier go, a changeful wanderer, and can warm himself at no home-lit hearth.

I think that I am here, on this earth, to present a report on it, but to whom I don’t know. As if I were sent so that whatever takes place has meaning because it changes into memory.

If you change the rules on what controls you… you will change the rules on what you can control.

A miracle is a shift in perception. The moment that we choose to perceive our life with love, we can create miraculous change.

The element of change has been the thing, really. We put out the first one, then the second… then a third LP totally different from them. It’s the reason we were able to keep it together.

A man wastes his time going to hear some of our eloquent modern preachers; they may change his opinions, but never his conduct.

Repeating a new behavior is what makes change stick.