However I am is however I am. When you see me onstage or in the press, there’s not a lot of thought and calculation that goes into it.
I have a face I cannot show, I make the rules up as I go.
When you tune your guitar in a different way, it lends itself to a new way of looking at your songwriting.
One of the things that I wound up loving about being involved with a bike racer was learning how to bike and how that really creates solitary time for you to reflect on things and nobody can get a hold of you.
I find a lot of joy just going out and playing for people.
More than 10 million Americans are living with cancer, and they demonstrate the ever-increasing possibility of living beyond cancer.
No matter how chaotic it is, wildflowers will still spring up in the middle of nowhere.
I had the luxury of falling down a few times and picking myself up as a stronger version of myself.
Your art kind of changes as you get older, by nature of the fact that you’re hopefully gaining wisdom and you’re starting to watch things with a better overview.
The cheapest energy is the energy you don’t use in the first place.
Are you strong enough to be my man?
I’m singing the way that I love to sing, which is like old soul, like old Al Green. I grew up about an hour from Memphis. So all that music that I grew up with – the Stax music and early rhythm ‘n’ blues – I’m doing that. I’m actually getting out from behind my guitar and I’m singing.
Music really becomes the soundtrack to the major events to your life.
If compassion was the motivating factor behind all of our decisions, would our world not be a completely different place?
My yesterdays are all boxed up and neatly put away.
I have a golden Lab who goes everywhere with me. He’s a great leveler.
I can always tell when people have had plastic surgery.
I don’t really cringe over any of my albums.
I’m not dead. I mean, I may be getting older, but I’m not dead!
Generally, when you let go of your vision of how something is supposed to be, the universe hands you exactly what you need.