I learned so much about music by playing this little, miniature songwriting machine [ukulele], especially about melody. The motto is less strings more melody.

Isn't Timbaland a make of shoe? It's a producer? I don't know who that is. Oh well.

I'm making music for music's sake, and I have an audience I'm proud of.

We're not going to be the coolest rock stars in the world. We're trying to be good musicians.

You can't be perfect. You can't be the perfect father. You can't be the perfect singer.

Worship the music, not the musicians.

Music was your real passion, this thing you held dear even above family. It was this relationship that never betrayed you. Once it became your job - this thing that was highly visible, this thing that became about commerce - that's when you were holding onto music like it was a palm tree in a hurricane.