I'm working on my life story. I'm not decided if it's going to be a musical or a movie with music in it.

I think the fact that I look totally artificial, but I am totally real, has its own kind of magic in it.

Someone once asked me, 'How long does it take to do your hair.' I said, 'I don't know, I'm never there.'

When the sparrow sings its final refrain, the hush is felt nowhere more deeply than in the heart of man.

I started out with the guitar and was a studio musician back in the 50s, and then got shot in my finger.

I'm interested in wartime stories, as I think it's important to remember what the soldiers went through.

My favourite people to follow on Twitter are... my fans. They make me laugh so much and keep me smiling.

I never thought of myself as being handsome or good-looking or whatever. I always felt like an outsider.

I believe that music is connected by human passions and curiosities rather than by marketing strategies.

The minuses of celebrity include having to live with security and the knowledge that you may be stalked.

I don't think Jimi committed suicide in the conventional way. He just decided to exit when he wanted to.

I'd rather see a person with a natural mind and processed mind than a processed mind and a natural head.

For me, I'm not a jealous person. That's just not my thing. You have to have trust in your relationship.

I drive these brothers crazy I do it on the daily They treat me really nicely They buy me all these ices

I can bake. I made myself some nice French fries once. But otherwise I just eat out. Lots of salad bars.

All the artists out there, I ask you and beg you: Take over your ship. It's your career. It's your life.

[Cuban coffee is] very powerful, very sweet, and a little dangerous - just like the people who drink it.

There are certain realities we must speak of with our children that were not present when I was a child.

Even if a song has shallow lyrics, there's something that you feel, regardless of what their lyrics are.

I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music.

You know, every year has been fantastic for me, I'm still here, I'm still alive and it's been fantastic.

And all I know is, you've got to give me everything. Nothing less 'cause, you know I give you all of me.

If youre gonna put your faith in something, then it better shape who you are and what people see in you.

I have the ability to build myself up or break myself down. I stay positive. Strength comes from within.

My biggest celebrity crush is either Ryan Reynolds or Caleb Followill, the lead singer of Kings of Leon.

All I knew when I moved to Nashville was that I wanted to make music in whatever shape and form I could.

Elvis had animal magnetism, he was even sexy to the guys, I can't imagine what the chicks used to think.

Maybe I think you're cute and funny. Maybe I wanna do what bunnies do with you, if you know what I mean.

I'm waiting for my kids to grow up and get into the Offspring and look at me like I'm a total candy-ass.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well.

I don't take compliments very easily. I think most musicians suffer from low self-esteem to some extent.

My favorite records are not easy - they're not records that reveal everything to you the first time out.

Sometimes I wonder if the lessons in life will ever stop but then why would you want to remain ignorant?

As you get up in your thirties, the van touring is not a possibility anymore. We can't all be Mike Watt.

For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.

And it's okay if you have to go away. Oh, just remember the telephone works both ways ((You and I Both))

I have an amazing social-media wing man who manages my Facebook fan site. All my blogs get copied there.

If you feel blocked, do not turn to others, but look inside, in silence, for the enemy of your progress.

A great artist can change society because of the entertaining and mesmerizing quality of his or her art.

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

I have never made a cent off a record in my life. I have never recouped enough, and I never sold enough.

I always did go against the singer-songwriter form. I think I've always had a lot of storytelling songs.

I think we should all come together, and that race and color or social demographics really don't matter.

I think that you could be whatever you wanted to be if you could realize all the dreams you have inside.

Many things made me become a vegetarian, among them the higher food yield as a solution to world hunger.

I have the integrity of a teenager and that's never going to be stolen from me. I'm the original virgin.

There are no limits to where our brains can take us. We are, if there be a God, God's gracious creation.

How the hell can a person go to work in the morning And come home in the evening and have nothing to say

I worked there [on Pontiac] three weeks, got really sick of it, went back home and joined the Air Force.

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