Any time you talk about your own stuff you sound self-aggrandising.

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I believe the angels listen, God hears us pray. And I believe in a beautiful day.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

I keep things pretty simple.

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

Valid questions are better than invalid assumptions.

When they'd first come out in the morning, a single flounder lay flapping and puffing in the breezeway, one sad, swollen eye looking back toward the sea.

I love romantic comedies. I have a deep respect for them. I think they're really difficult to write and write well.

O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound, "Your lord will soon return," no phrase brings.

To me, as a musician, there aren't any boundaries genre-wise as far as what can you listen to to inspire you.

Good manners open the closed doors; bad manners close the open doors!

Husbands and wives are equal partners. They have different but complementary responsibilities.

Hope is itself a species of happiness.

I compose the frame literally with the camera. Unless it makes a story point.

Great men may jest with saints; 'tis wit in them; But, in the less foul profanation.