Singing into a microphone and learning to play an instrument and learning to do your craft, that's the most important thing for people to do. It's not about being perfect, it's not about sounding absolutely correct, it's not about what goes on in a computer. It's about what goes on in here [your heart] and what goes on in here [your head].

Ladies and gentlemen, god bless America - land of the free, home of the brave.

I'm so not macho. It's crazy. My man cave is so not a man cave.

No one is you, and that is your power.

You look up to your heroes and you shouldn't be intimidated by them; you should be inspired by them.

I once received a cape that was made from the little purple bags that Crown Royal Whisky comes in.

When I was a teenager, working towards dropping out of high school to starting to tour with bands, I'd drive around in my VW Bug every morning before school, very stoned listening over and over to Zeppelin. This song got to me because it just seemed mystical. There is something about those Celtic tunings that almost sounds Eastern. Somehow it would sweep me up into my own little trance-like state, like Sting with those shamans in the Amazon. But all I had was a bong and a Led Zeppelin cassette.