This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

The older I get, the surer I am that I'm not running the show.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.