But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

Sometimes life's so much cooler when you just don't know any better and all the painful lessons have not hammered your head open yet.

Also, we're all actually different blood types and we have one represented by each guy in the band.

We've just learned how to balance ourselves a little better so that we're happier way more of the time than not, and, you know, being happy is a radical and desirable act if you ask me.

We did that with people like Chris Rock, Woody Harrelson, and the environmentalist Julia Butterfly Hill.

We'll have these people hang out with us while we're doing our touring, and talk to them and let them speak their piece to the world.

In terms of having high hopes that the level of consciousness will get higher and higher, yeah.

You know I love pot, and I love beer, but I am totally sober, just because it completely stopped working for me.

I would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

But then when he left, I realized that it was harder to write songs and feel spiritually connected to art and music as a band. When he came back I felt it again, instantaneously.

I think art is inherently nonviolent and it actually occupies your mind with creation rather than destruction.

It seems like the chaos of this world is accelerating, but so is the beauty in the consciousness of more and more people.

As a father now, I wouldn't do what my dad did, because it left me feeling emotionally unstable as a kid. But he didn't do the things he did out of selfishness or malice.

I discovered surfing, which I absolutely fell in love with. That feels good and kind of keeps your body aligned, so does the salt water.

I don't even know what words to use to talk about the music industry anymore. But the business has changed a lot - the methods of releasing music.

I find it hard to meet the right woman as people assume I'm a certain type of person - which I'm not.

I inherited my father's insatiable desire to meet all the beautiful girls in the world.

I like the idea of defying the convention of what it is to be in your 40s, or 50s, or 60s.

I never really thought in terms of the concept of being a rock star - being around people like that just seemed like normal day-in-the-life stuff to me. Those were just the surroundings I grew up in.

I was a little self-centered gutter punk in the early 1980s and all I wanted to do was diss everybody.

I would have to say the person with whom I am most in love is definitely my son, Everly Bear. Although I'm his dad, I'm also his friend.

I'm not a true vegan.

I'm probably not long-term-relationship material for now.

If you want to get along with somebody, let them be right, and it will last longer.

My days are whatever I want them to be.

Personally, I am stuck with one foot in the past and one foot in the present.

The fact my relationship with my son is so good makes me forgiving of my father and also appreciative.

Well, I get excited about music.

What I've realized over the years is that I have some pretty good friends.

What doesn't kill you only makes your book longer.

would consider him definitely one of my very best friends and I know he feels the same about me. We have a lot of love and respect.

A rock star does not age!

It's hard to believe that there's nobody out there. It's hard to believe that I'm all alone. At least I have her love, the city she loves me. Lonely as I am, together we cry.

Art teaches nothing, except the significance of life.

The principal rule of art is to please and to move. All the other rules were created to achieve this first one.

I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.

One does not devote one's life in art to shock an audience.

The other great development has been in photography, but that too was influenced by Conceptual art.

My art became very public.

Riding a race bike is an art - a thing that you do because you feel something inside.

The idea is, if I can't heal from my art, then how can you heal?

But in the finished art of the song the use of words has no connection with the use of words in poetry.

One does not need buildings, money, power, or status to practice the Art of Peace. Heaven is right where you are standing, and that is the place to train.

I don't believe in art. I believe in artists.

Art cannot be modern. Art is primordially eternal.

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

We have often been attracted to the story of the other, the outcast. And he and I just loved working together, so it just kept happening, and our relationship is completely bound up with our work. We enjoy each other's art.

Where the spirit does not work with the hand, there is no art.

It is veneer, rouge, aestheticism, art museums, new theaters, etc. that make America impotent. The good things are football, kindness, and jazz bands.