I believe in the power of music. To me, it isn't just a fad. This is a positive thing.

Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.

I don't need drugs to make my life tragic.

If at noon you sit down and there's just silence or blank tape, in an hour if you have a song, that didn't exist an hour ago. Now it exists and it might exist for a long time. There's something empowering about that.

If I'm not on tour or in the studio, I'm in nature somewhere, usually some kind of ocean. Playing music has afforded me that. It's not lost on me that it's a tremendous opportunity to be able to spend your life being surrounded by nature.

Sorry is the fool who trades his soul for a corvette Thinks he'll get the girl he'll only get the mechanic.

The Republicans initially sort of saw George W. Bush as a blank canvas, didn't they? It seems like they interviewed him when he was governor of Texas to see what kind of candidate he could be.