“Inspiration comes from displacement. Get out of your comfort zone, the rewards are legion.”

It’s a privilege to play music fora living. Even more, it’s a privilege to have an audience. Respect that.

Marijuana grows naturally…Don’t you think making nature against the law seems a bit, I don’t know, unnatural?

Artists are tuning forks. Their goal is to create resonance in the audience.

You’ve got to challenge yourself, ski the double blacks, go out when it’s blowin’ and snowin’ as well as when it’s sunny and smooth.

Keep making music.. Keep improving your music.. If there’s no viral action on your music, you’re just not good enough. Don’t get mad at the audience, get mad at yourself. Either give up or get better.

As a Christian, you forgive, and you feed the hungry and clothe the naked, and you visit the sick and comfort the lonely.

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion.

We are easily comforted for the misfortunes of our friends, when those misfortunes give us an occasion of expressing our affection and solicitude.

Money is for food and clothes and comfort, and a visit to the pictures.

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

Beer is a gift from the goddesses, a soothing balm given our species to bring joy and comfort in compensation for the curse of self-awareness.

You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition.

That’s a big part of my life – doing things that I’m not prepared to do.