“The more real you get, the more unreal everything else is.”

You may say i’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one.

Peace is not something you wish for; It’s something you make, something you do, something you are, and something you give away.

Love is the flower you’ve got to let grow.

Living is easy with eyes closed, misunderstanding all you see.

I can’t remember anything without a sadness so deep that it hardly becomes known to me, so deep that its tears leave me a spectator of my own stupidity.

I get by with a little help from my friends.

A mistake is only an error, it becomes a mistake when you fail to correct it.

You either get tired fighting for peace, or you die.

You are not your emotions, you have emotions,and you can master them.

I can’t wake you up. You can wake you up. I can’t cure you. You can cure you.

Our society is run by insane people for insane objectives.

Violence begets violence, you know. And you can’t kill off all the violent people or all the murderers. We’d have to kill off the government.

Evolution and all hopes for a better world rest in the fearlessness and open-hearted vision of people who embrace life.

There was something wrong with me, I thought, because I seemed to see things other people didn’t see.

What we’ve got to do is keep hope alive. Because without it we’ll sink.

I wouldn’t say I was a born writer; I’m a born thinker.

There’s a little exhaust pipe leaking gasoline, and that gasoline is how good your music is, the gasoline is how you have relationships with people.

There were a lot of songs that I still wanted to put on the album but it worked out. I can only fit 18 [tracks] on the album, I would put 30 if I could.

I only write music for myself, I don’t try and appeal to anyone else.

Your personal history is a part of what happens with your hands and your head as you play music.

A trapper but this rappin got me going places you’ll never go!

I always just wanted to be the singer or the bass player in the band. I’d love to have a band, where I was obviously the singer, but where it wasn’t me, it wasn’t my name.

Never lose faith in real rock and roll music. Never lose faith in that. You might have to look a little harder, but it’s always going to be there.

I can play a lot of different instruments adequately but nothing really well.