If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.

If you want to know how important Portland is to me, there's no Saturday night gigs here. They weren't available. So our whole thing coming into Portland, which is going to be different from anybody else, any other city, is every night is Saturday night.

One day I'll be standing at the river looking out across tomorrow, and the bridge I need to get there will be a bridge that I have burned.

I'm sitting in the drive-through and I've got my three girls in the back and this station comes on and it's playing “Jailhouse Rock,” the original version, and my girls are jumping up and down, going nuts. I'm looking around at them and they've heard Dad's music all the time and I don't see that out of them.

The greatest conflicts are not between two people but between one person and himself.

If she were a president, she'd be Baberham Lincoln.

If God came down here with the box that had the reason for living in it, I'd like to find just 2 words: The Music. That would be neat.