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

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.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.

What's fascinating is that when you write a script, it's almost a stream of consciousness. You have an idea that it means something, but you're not always sure what. Then when you get on the set, the actors teach you.

A young man is stirred and stimulated by the consciousness of how much depends upon his own exertions: a young girl is oppressed by it.

Experience is never limited, and it is never complete; it is an immense sensibility, a kind of huge spider-web of the finest silken threads suspended in the chamber of consciousness, and catching every air-borne particle in its tissue.

Life is a state of consciousness.

I've always been interested in the relationship between total external surround, culture, the political matrix, technology, etc., and the internal human consciousness.

There is no reality of consciousness independent of the effects of various vehicles of content on subsequent action (and hence, of course, on memory).

A man's thinking goes on within his consciousness in a seclusion in comparison with which any physical seclusion is an exhibition to public view.

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings.

You shall always find what you created in your mind, for instance, a benevolent God or an evil Devil. Between them are countless facets. Therefore, concentrate on the depth of your consciousness and on what you consider to be positive and good.

Feeling is the consciousness of the resulting conditions - of success, failure, equilibrium, compromise or balance, in this continuous rivalry of ideas.

Only those within whose own consciousness the sun rise and set, the leaves burgeon and wither, can be said to be aware of what living is.

Analysis brings no curative powers in its train; it merely makes us conscious of the existence of an evil, which, oddly enough, is consciousness.

The consciousness of the falsity of present pleasures, and the ignorance of the vanity of absent pleasures, cause inconstancy.

Madison Avenue is a very powerful aggression against private consciousness. A demand that you yield your private consciousness to public manipulation.

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else's, I'm happy to do it.