The power of music is undeniable.

A good song resonates with the heart.

True wisdom is knowing what you don’t know.

Insect politics, indifferent universe. Bang your head against the wall, but apathy is worse.

Selling eight million copies of your first album will mess you up.

Every song is a story waiting to be told.

The road to success is always under construction.

Life is too short to not follow your passion.

For every moment of joy Every hour of fear For every winding road that brought me here For every breath, for every day of living This is my Thanksgiving.

I am an expert witness because I say I am.

Time is a precious commodity.

I think the best songs are about universal truths.

You have to take risks to create something great.

Fortune smiles on some, and lets the others go free.

Lennon’s was one of the first voices I emulated when I began to sing. When we held tryouts in my pal’s dad’s living room for the singer in our band, I sang a Beatles song that Lennon sang. There is something about the timbre of his voice, something that it conveys, that still gets to me. The quality and the poetry of his lyrics. The wry sense of humor. And the boyishness, in the beginning. There are a great many things that touch me about him… Lennon was, to put it in his own words, a ‘working-class hero.

The best moments are the ones we don’t plan.

Don’t let the noise of others’ opinions drown out your own inner voice.

My creative life is a constant struggle to achieve a balance between letting things flow in and letting things flow out.

Remember how you made me crazy, remember how I made you scream.

Lawsuits should not be used to destroy a viable and independent distribution system. The solution lies in the marketplace and not the courtroom.

Art should comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable.

The journey is just as important as the destination.

Oh beautiful for spacious skies, but now those skies are threatening. They’re beating plowshares into swords for this tired old man we elected king.

There is not wrong, there is no right, and I will sleep very well tonight.

Playing the drums hurts my back.

In the end, it’s all about love and connection.

The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there.

The government bugged the men’s room in the local disco lounge.

To want what I have, to take what I’m given with grace. For this I pray.

Between each album I try to gain a new insight that I didn’t have before and perhaps write a song about something that I’ve written about before, but from a fresh viewpoint.

Hope is a powerful thing.

Music is the soundtrack of our lives.

In the old days, words like sin and Satan had a moral certitude. Today, they’re replaced with self-help jargon, words like dysfunction and antisocial behavior, discouraging any responsibility for one’s actions.

It’s an inside job to learn about forgiving, it’s an inside job to hang on to the joy of living.

I’m always jotting things down on pieces of paper. I’ve got pieces of paper all over my house.

We’re all searching for something.

Sometimes you have to let go to move forward.

The bubble headed bleach blonde comes on at five, she can tell you about the plane crash with a gleam in her eye. It’s interesting when people die, gives us dirty laundry.

No one in this country need go hungry, and alleviating the problem is primarily a matter of readjusting our priorities. In both the government and the private sector, self-interest has displaced the ideal of community that made this country great. The old world view of “us, we, our” has been replaced by “I, me, mine.” The reasons for this are manifold and complex, but at the end of the day, we need to remember that, if one of us is suffering needlessly, all of us are diminished.

I try to write conversationally; I try to write like people speak and put the emphasis on the right syllable.

Life is about balance and perspective.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they’re the very things we kill.

Cause a man with a briefcase can steal more money than any man with a gun.

Armchair warriors often fail – and we’ve been poisoned by these fairy tales.

I could stand out front and sing Eagles songs that I sing in my set, but I think people enjoy watching me sing and play the drums. It seems to fascinate people. I don’t know why.

The best songs come from a place of honesty.

It was pretty frightening because as we all know, when large, famous groups breakup, a lot of the members don’t survive in solo careers.

There are people in your life who’ve come and gone, they let you down and hurt your pride. Better put it all behind you, life goes on, you keep carrying that anger, it’ll eat you up inside.

We satisfy our endless needs and justify our bloody deeds in the name of destiny and in the name of God.

I think my first instrument was a ukulele that they gave me. I used to know how to play that pretty well.

We’re all just trying to find a way to live.

I saw a Dead Head sticker on a Cadillac. A little voice inside my head said, don’t look back, you can never look back.

Sometimes to keep it together you’ve got to leave it alone.

You’re driving with your eyes closed.

I could have played more complex stuff. I could have been a busier player. But that’s not what I wanted to do. I played what I wanted to play.

I believe in the power of music to change the world.

There are no facts, there is no truth, just data to be manipulated.

Nobody on the road. Nobody on the beach. I feel it in the air, the summer’s out of reach.

My love for you will still be strong after the boys of summer have gone.

Mick Jagger can’t even make a successful solo album, and the Stones are the biggest rock group that ever was.

You can’t be the same person you were before.

The more I know, the less I understand.

Let hope inspire you, but let not idealism blind you. Don’t look back, you can never look back.

I don’t mind doing two or three Eagles songs and playing the drums. I’m not one of those artists who’s going to sit here and deny the past.

Sometimes you get the best light from a burning bridge.