The mountains themselves call us into greater stories.
If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.
What I like best about music is when time goes away.
We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.
More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.
We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.
I tried to write things, but they were so ridiculous and stupid and impossible and I had not a clue what they were, so that delusion went on for a long time. Maybe it's still going on, only somehow I sucked some people in. It was a long time of writing things that didn't make sense in the real world, and I'm embarrassed about them now in a jocular way.
But the most valuable lesson he taught me was this: Every day we get older, and some of us get wiser, but there's no end to our evolution. We are all a mess of contradictions; some of our traits work for us, some against us.
I prefer a saint with faults to a sinner with none.
It's amazing how you don't realize just how alone and scared you were until you have someone by your side to support you.