Man is a masterpiece of creation. . .
I'm not a real good musician, but I can write [a song] pretty well. I experiment once in a while to see what I can do. I find out the best I can do is stay with ballads.
Every day is a good day to be alive, whether the sun's shining or not.
The great songs just come out. If it comes quick, just leave it that way.
I have so much fun on stage that I should have to pay to get in.
If halfway love is all you want or all you care to give, why bother with love at all and only halfway live.
I only drank for three years of my life, but I drank enough in those three years to last me the rest of my life. . . It's a religious thing.
Feminism has exceeded its proper mission of seeking political equality for women and has ended by rejecting contingency, that is, human limitation by nature or fate.
I'm a very private, very reclusive kind of guy.
When things aren't going well, I complain a lot and get depressed. I whine and I eat and I go to sleep. I do all kinds of things. And if I'm smart, I'll go and clean out a drawer or a closet or go and pay my bills. I do get myself into situations where I'm not happy with what's going on. But you just have to wait it out and have faith that that dry well will fill up again.
As an independent filmmaker, to develop the money and the financing and the structure and the whole process, and then promoting them and traveling with them, which is a part of the process that I've always enjoyed and I've learned a great deal from.