If you want to really love someone, you've got to let go and loosen up and just care.

I'm so busy trying to breathe through the pain that I'm breathing through the pain of being with people, and that is no way to spend a life. Eventually, they'll just go away, because you will make them sad. That's something I've proven quite adept at doing over the years.

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

Bravery is what you can do in the face of things that hurt and scare you, but you do it anyway.

When everybody loves me, I will never be lonely.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.