“To be a celebrity, I couldn’t think of anything more cringe-worthy.”

There’s not an instruction manual on how to deal with success, so you just have to rely on having great friends and a good team.

You’ll shoot the moon put out the sun when you love someone.

I got in trouble with the police, and that was a rude awakening. That was it. I’d seen the bottom of the pit, and it was time to scrape myself out of it.

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.