“It's so beautiful,Don't you think that's beautiful? It's coming home all the way to Austin, Texas”

“You make me believe in magic again. And just when everything is beautiful, you go and break the spell.”

“Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while, you don't do things right once in a while, you do them right all the time. Winning is habit. Unfortunately, so is losing.”

“It's not whether you got knocked down; it's whether you get back up.”

“The real glory is being knocked to your knees and then coming back. That's real glory. Thats the essence of it.”

“Poetry is not efficient. If you want to learn how to cook a lobster, it’s probably best not to look to poetry. But if you want to see the word lobster in all its reactant oddity, its pied beauty, as if for the first time, go to poetry. And if you want to know what it’s like to be that lobster in the pot, that’s in poetry too.”

“I have so many opinions about everything it just comes out during my music. It's a battle for me. I try not to be preachy. That's a real danger.”