I've passed the age of consciousness and righteous rage. I found that just surviving was a noble fight.

I've played all kinds of places, laid all kinds of girls.

I consider myself to be an inept pianist, a bad singer, and a merely competent songwriter. What I do, in my opinion, is by no means extraordinary.

There's always a place for the angry young man with his fist in the air and his head in the sand. He's never been able to learn from mistakes, he can't understand why his heart always breaks.

I believe there is a time for meditation in cathedrals of our own.

I've lived long enough to have learned, the closer you get to the fire, the more you get burned.

I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."