Someday we’ll look back on this and it will all seem funny.
The hungry and the haunted explode in a rock’n’roll band.
The great challenge of adulthood is holding on to your idealism after you lose your innocence.
Is a dream a lie if it don’t come true? Or is it something worse?
It’s a town full of losers, and I’m pulling out of here to win.
One problem with the way the educational system is set up is that it only recognizes a certain type of intelligence, and it’s incredibly restrictive – very, very restrictive. There’s so many types of intelligence, and people who would be at their best outside of that structure get lost.
A time comes when you need to stop waiting for the man you want to become and start being the man you want to be.
You can’t start a fire without a spark.
If you’re an artist, you try to keep an ear to the ground and an ear to your heart.
You know hearts these days are cheap.
I believe when your children are born that you are reborn in some fashion.
Don’t take yourself too seriously. And take yourself as seriously as death itself.
Our American government has strayed too far from American values. It is time to move forward. The country we carry in our hearts is waiting.
With a chance to make it good somehow, hey, what else can we do now? Except roll down the window, and let the wind blow back your hair.
I’ve found that giving 100% to your job isn’t the same as giving 100% of your life to your job. Very often when I thought I was giving 100% of my life to my job, I was simply obsessing over something.
It’s hard to be a saint in the city.
I have to write and play. If I became an electrician tomorrow, I’d still come home at night and write songs.
You have moments of clarity, things become clear to you that you didn’t understand before. But there’s never any making ends meet or finding any time of longstanding peace of mind about something.
I’m interested in what it means to be an American. I’m interested in what it means to live in America. I’m interested in the kind of country that we live in and leave our kids. I’m interested in trying to define what that country is.