I always saw songwriting as the top of the heap. No matter what else you were going to do creatively... writing songs was king.

Tolerance can lead to learning something.

A guilty conscience means at least you have one.

There is trouble in my mind There is dark, there's dark and there is light There is no order, and there is chaos, and there is crime There is no one home tonight, in the empire of my mind

I do like a song that can look good on a page without even being sung. I edit and edit and edit.

It doesn't always have a shape,Almost never does it have a name,It maybe has a pitchfork, maybe has a tail,But evil is alive and well.

But there's got to be an opening somewhere here in front of me. Through this maze of ugliness and greed.

Its a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?

There's only one thing that's certainAnd that's everybody, everybody's hurting

I liked getting the Grammy more than not getting it.

Bob Dylan led me to this kind of music - and it's his and ours. And it's nobody else's.

The heart's the trouble. It knows the monster but remembers the love.

I never saw any lamp shining more brilliantly than the lamp of silence.

Everything bad that's ever happened in my life I've seen an outcome that's positive later on.

Well, we all age, but Id been taking herbal supplements for a long time.

[The] impersonal process of the market ... can be neither just nor unjust, because the results are not intended or foreseen.

This is the bravo’s dance, the water dance, swift and sudden. All men are made of water, do you know this? When you pierce them, the water leaks out and they die.

I think it's really nice to have an authenticity, it's a huge source for us to be able to lean on people who have that knowledge.

Somehow I have the feeling that in some book is the great treasure I've been looking for all my life.

I am a great mayor; I am an upstanding Christian man; I am an intelligent man; I am a deeply educated man; I am a humble man.

Your level of achievement will rise to meet the level of your purpose.