Most pleasures, like flowers when gathered die.

As you go through life, you've got to see the valleys as well as the peaks.

For whatever you're doing, for your creative juices, your geography's got a hell of a lot to do with it. You really have to be in a good place, and then you have to be either on your way there or on your way from there.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

The youth of this country are not behind what is going on. We all know that. If you looked at a [political] map of the United States 25 and under, it's all-revealing. It's a unified map.

I think in some ways - only in some ways - but in some ways, rock and roll has let me down. It really doesn't leave you a way to grow old gracefully and continue to work.

I trust people. So I make my music for people not for candidates.