“Take what you see on TV, mix in a guy who's turned 30 and still doesn't have a job, throw in some Uncle Remus stories and add a few flies in amber and you have America.”

“So, when you divide the world into music lovers, music fans and then those people who are just very casual about their music, it's wallpaper to them, it's elevator music, it's just the thing that's...”

“Sometimes before we make a record I go back and listen to a few. It's equally humbling and uplifting.”

“My feeling is that labels are for canned food... I am what I am - and I know what I am.”

“On planes I always cry. Something about altitude, the lack of oxygen and the bad movies. I cried over a St. Bernard movie once on a plane. That was really embarrassing.”

“We only pass this way once..unless our significant other is reading the map..”

“The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.”

“I travel without barely any luggage. Just a second set of underwear and binoculars and a map and a toothbrush.”

“The more clearly you understand yourself and your emotions, the more you become a lover of what is.”

“There are only two ways to live your life: as though nothing is a miracle, or as though everything is a miracle.”

“The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not to satisfy someone else's opinion.”

“In a world where you can be anything, be kind.”

“The worst kind of oppression is when the victims think and talk in the language of their oppressors.”

“A random act of kindness, no matter how small, can make a tremendous impact on someone else's life.”