I came out to California from Texas, to the Haight, and the Fillmore and all that stuff, and totally got the bug.

In the tradition of the classic songwriter rooms like The Bluebird in Nashville, Strange Brew is a gift to the music community in Austin, for artists and audiences alike

People say, 'How's the record doing?' In the old days you'd say, 'We're at 600,000, it's doing great.' You don't say those things anymore. Those numbers are gone.

If you can't play it on an acoustic guitar or a grand piano then it's not a song.

Well, it's not far down to paradise, at least it's not for me And if the wind is right you can sail away and find tranquility.

I think MTV put a huge dent in the songwriting craft.

All the words of wisdom sound the same.

We certainly strive for trying to make a quality record throughout, and I think that's true of all of our records.

You just want to hone your craft, whatever it may be.

Don't surrender to the dying light; don't take it lying down.

The hurt of a love that is lost has no cure but the love of another heart.

I know of no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too desirous of evidence in support of their core beliefs.

The industrial part of Detroit is really the most interesting side, otherwise it’s like the rest of the United States, ugly and stupid.

Every person has a revolution beating within his or her chest

I'd rather know how you feel than hope and wonder and delude myself for weeks on end.

Men may not read the gospel in sealskin, or the gospel in morocco, or the gospel in cloth covers, but they can't get away from the gospel in shoe leather.

It's harder being a woman director because on the whole women don't have husbands or boyfriends who are willing to be wives

God employs several translators; some pieces are translated by age, some by sickness, some by war, some by justice.

The blazing evidence of immortality is our dissatisfaction with any other solution.

Nobody notices me. Nobody thinks I'm me. But then I look less like me than most of the people coming to our concerts.

If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.