I think that in the last four or five years I've constantly struggled with the balance in my life.

It was satisfying to take a risk and see it pay off.

In all the years that I've been doing this, I've never launched a tour and launched an album at basically the same time. Doing one of those things is enough!

I love the fact that I can go out there on stage with a guitar and sing a song that means something to somebody.

Me and my band and crew have always lived by the code: 'Work hard, play harder.'

Music's supposed to come from the heart. I felt like that if it ever got mechanical, I was going to back away from it.

I need to recharge creatively, and get off the clock of having to be somewhere just because, and having to keep juggling all these things.

I've always been drawn to the ocean.

Over the years I've had people tell me that they come to my show to escape.

You'd think I'd have been happiest in my life playing music in front of 50,000 people at Gillette Stadium. But let me tell you, it's an odd feeling to feel alone in the spotlight.

I work hard but I play hard.

I want there to be a level of respect between everybody.

I had a notepad and I wrote down 30 things to make myself better just off the top of my head, and the next day I started to do that.

I'm like a shark. I've got to be constantly moving.

“If you get anything less than six hours of sleep a night on a consistent basis you are basically going through your day with the exact same physiological symptoms as if you were drunk. You have a foggy brain, you're forgetful, you're moody, you might even notice that your balance is a little bit off, you feel kind of heavy in terms of the emotional weight in your body, so you've got to get onto a great sleep schedule.” 

Memory whispers someplace in that jumbled machinery.

This world… belongs to the strong, my friend! The ritual of our existence is based on the strong getting stronger by devouring the weak.

The fundamentalists have taken the fun out of the mental.

But at least I tried

Sometimes I looked at them and sometimes they looked at me, but rarely did we look at one another.

I'd take a look at my own self in the mirror and wonder how it was possible that anybody could manage such an enormous thing as being what he was.

The world news might not be therapeutic.

More was revealed in a human face than a human being can bear face to face.

But I tried though," he says. "Goddammit, I sure as hell did that much, now, didn't I?