Great Throughts Treasury

"Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you’ll have left is your character."

"If you always try to take the high road, then everybody has a chance to benefit."

"I can sit and analyze everything and beat myself up and say you don't quite sing as good as you used to, you're writing better songs maybe than you used to, but to me it's just the journey."

"I've always been more drawn to being normal than being famous."

"It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am."

"The funny thing is, people's perceptions of what a song is about is usually wrong a majority of the time. But they're still going to read what they want to into it."

"Music is the place where democracy lives. Every note is equal."

"When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character."

"Well I think in all the thirty years I've been doing this now and being gone from home and all that stuff it's really, it's not about what I've achieved and if I've become a better player, or played better ten years ago than I do today."