 People should watch out for three things: avoid a major addiction, don't get so deeply into debt that it controls your life, and don't start a family before you're ready to settle down. |
| Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you. |
| When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical activity. |
| If you feel like singing along, don't. |
| I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well. |
| Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not. |
| It is a process of discovery. It's being quiet enough and undisturbed enough for a period of time so that the songs can begin to sort of peek out, and you begin to have emotional experiences in a musical way. |
| Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely. |
| It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly. |
| I believe 100 percent in the power and importance of music. |
| It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before. |
| That's the motivation of an artist - to seek attention of some kind. |
| I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your money's coming from. |
| If you think my music is sentimental and self-absorbed, I agree with you. |
| Music is like a huge release of tension. |
| I don't think anyone really says anything new. |
| I think that we're all totally isolated beings and always will be. |
| I can take criticisms but not compliments. |
| I don't read music. I don't write it. So I wander around on the guitar until something starts to present itself. |
| I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character. |
