In my dream, I was drowning my sorrows But my sorrows they learned to swim

What I like about pop music, and why I'm still attracted to it, is that in the end it becomes our folk music.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

As hard as it is, as ghetto as it is, hip-hop is pop music. It's the sound of music getting out of the ghetto, while rock is looking for a ghetto.

Every artist is a cannibal/every poet is a thief/all kill for inspiration/and then sing about the grief.

God's Spirit moves through us and the world at a pace that can never be constricted by any one religious paradigm.

As a musician and a songwriter it is an act of the ego to believe that other people might be interested in your point of view. But it is usually an empathetic nature that gets you going in the first place. Music keeps the heart porous in many ways.