I am a complete jazz nerd.

I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.

I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.

When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm just doing them because they're great songs.

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for a reason, and I start singing them.

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

Have you ever noticed that fear affects your physical mind and body?

Why don’t we keep track of the happy moments, so that afterward we will believe them? Is he the same man Was he really sincere?

Tune as the sitthar, neither high nor low, and we will dance away the hearts of men.

Brooke was always my summer. She’ll always be my summer. And I had already made my choice a long time ago. Loving Brooke was what I was made to do.

Why is it you feel like a dope if you laugh alone, but that's usually how you end up crying?

I always [or "often"] walk slowly, but I never walk backwards.

Honey, ... When a wolf watches a lamb, he's not thinking about the lamb's mommy.

I think it'd be great to own a fun concept store with my friends and just sell books and records.

Never forget that it is we New Yorkers and New Englanders who have the monopoly of whatever oxygen there is in the American continent.

Leonardo DiCaprio's life is the perfect example of how not to be. I would not wish his life on anybody.