“Songwriting is a bitch. And then it has puppies”

“You'd be surprised how expensive it costs to look this cheap.”

“The past is gone. It went by like dusk to dawn.”

“Seems like the light at the end of the tunnel may be you.”

“They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.”

“But you've reached them, and I've always wanted to reach people. I'm the first one to say I love my fans because they love that I took a chance.”

“Lost Time is never found again.”

“How you spend your time is more important than how you spend your money. Money mistakes can be corrected, but time is gone forever.”

“Men talk of killing time, while time quietly kills them.”

“I am not saying that Hitler was a choir boy. But I am saying, let him who was innocent in the Second World War cast the first stone.”

“Who I am as a guitarist is defined by my failure to become Jimi Hendrix.”

“Pride is ugly. It says, 'If you succeed, I am a failure.'”

“They had killed themselves over our dying forests, over manatees maimed by propellers as they surfaced to drink from garden hoses; they had killed themselves at the sight of used tires stacked high...”

“The world seemed to shimmer a little at the edges.”

“If we cannot accept the importance of the world, which considers itself important, if in the midst of that world our laughter finds no echo, we have but one choice: to take the world as a whole and...”