I want to go to Africa and find a really great hotel with good food right above a water hole where I can sit, have breakfast, and just watch the elephants play in the water.

After all the time we [people] spent saying look, war is a stupid way to solve stuff - oh, you're not trying to solve stuff. You're trying to make money.

I write very sporadically. I write sometimes three things in a week and then nothing for a year. I make a space for it but I don't push it. They just come and they come.

The easiest way to get laid by a girl, or get rid of her, is to write a song about her.

[Calling you a] star is just a trick. It's like a straw man thing. They [people] set you up just to knock you over. It's bull. You avoid it, I avoid it.

It's hard to bullshit the ocean. It's not listening, you know what I mean.

When did I decide to go into business? Well, it wasn't a business, when I decided. It was simply a need to sing.