Sobering up was responsible for breaking up my marriage. That’s what it couldn’t stand.
It won’t be long before another day, were gonna have a good time. And no ones gonna take that time away. You can stay as long as you like.
People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don’t get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don’t start a family before you’re ready to settle down.
Shower the people you love with love.
I don’t know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.
Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.
I believe musicians have a duty, a responsibility to reach out, to share your love or pain with others.
Time will take your money, but money won’t buy time.
I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music.
I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.
The secret of life is enjoying the passage of time.
I started being a songwriter pretending I could do it, and it turned out I could.
Music reminds us that the universe loves us.
Fortunately, it doesn’t seem to have made a lot of difference to my audience that I’m as bald as a billiard ball!
I think people are isolated because of the nature of human consciousness, and they like it when they feel the connection between themselves and someone else.
It is a process of discovery. It’s being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way.
I don’t take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.
If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you.
There’ll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.