I think that's the most important thing you can do to be a real person - is to be honest with yourself.

When people start writing songs for award shows, there's a very limited palette you can use. You end up not sounding like you. You end up sounding like somebody else. You end up getting what the record company thinks they can market.

Listen to the silence. Listen to your life. Be present, not just think about what's going on next week, next month.

I started playing bass for the same reason everyone else does – I’m a lousy guitarist.

It's no use analyzing your life the whole time. Those analyses won't help you when you're dead

Happiness is a road traveled, not a destination.

Sometimes you need coffee, and sometimes you need a Bloody Mary.