Running should be free, man.
We all have two lives. The one we are given and the one we create.
It's a marvelous feeling when someone says I want to do this song of yours because they've connected to it. That's what I'm after.
Life is never a straight line - it's peaks and valleys. Why would you want to be the same person every day of your life?
Carry with you maps and string, flashlights, friends who make you sing, and stars to help you find your place, music, hope, and amazing grace.
I've never. . . when I was having songs on the airwaves, and that sort of thing, I never felt a sense of pressure anywhere except from myself, to do things the way I wanted to do them; to feel authentic; to feel like I was presenting my true self to the world.
I think topical songwriting is a real gift, and it's hard not to be pedantic and show up with the sledgehammer message.
Doing deals doesn't yield the deep rewards that come from building up people.
Power brings a man many luxuries, but a clean pair of hands is seldom among them.
The Indian prefers the soft sound of the wind darting over the face of the pond, the smell of the wind itself cleansed by a midday rain, or scented with pinon pine. The air is precious to the red man, for all things are the same breath - the animals, the trees, the man.
Together, we will reclaim America's schools, before ignorance and apathy claim more young lives.