“May you always be courageous, stand upright and be strong, may you stay forever young.”

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won’t invite what’s not there to begin with.

You get older. You start having hopes for other people rather than yourself.

All the money you made will never buy back your soul.

I don’t think I’m tangible to myself.

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.

Language is courage: the ability to conceive a thought, to speak it, and by doing so to make it true.

Opening your heart and being vulnerable in the face of fear is the most courageous thing you can do.

Why can’t we summon the ingenuity and courage of the generations that came before us? The dinosaurs never saw that asteroid coming. What’s our excuse?

Strike up the drum and march courageously.

It takes courage to feel, and she’s the bravest person I know.

Courage is the resolution to face the unforeseen.

Courage is the greatest of all virtues, because if you haven’t courage, you may not have an opportunity to use any of the others.

The sea – this truth must be confessed – has no generosity. No display of manly qualities – courage, hardihood, endurance, faithfulness – has ever been known to touch its irresponsible consciousness of power.