I could never settle down into a reggae band, that's too bizarre.

Sometimes songs need extra time and space to really play themselves out, and some songs it's like, this is all you need, a straightforward thing.

If people like electronic music, then great - let that be the next thing. I don't think I ever really will, but there's plenty of records for me to go buy.

People who were really good at playing or singing seemed boring to me.

If you know that someone is going to hear what you're doing, you're always going to be self-conscious about it. In a way that's good; it spurs you on.

It's really hard for me to capture this certain way of singing that sounds good to me. I don't really understand it, but hopefully some day I'll figure it out.

There are lot of bands that have too many songs, I think.

That's one of those hazards of an interview: You get tired of your stock answer and you try to get creative and even play devil's advocate.

There are certain recordings where my voice sounds good to me. Singing live I really enjoy, but I don't know how good it sounds.

For me, I'm more of a songwriter than a guitar player or singer. And not having things to work on was really kind of nice.

Nothing ever dies, nothing ever goes away.

It's not to give people fish It's not to teach them how to fish It's to build a new and better fishing industry

...I wish that I may never think the smiles of the great and powerful a sufficient inducement to turn aside from the straight path of honesty and the convictions of my own mind.

You cannot get to where you are going until you have learned all there is to learn about where you are.

I do not gather things, I prefer to rent them rather than to possess them.

Writing books is one of the ways that human beings deal with loss, especially when you don't have religious consolation available.

a short cut to matrimonial unhappiness is not to have the same taste in jokes!

I go and see music all the time.

Whether it was a song, a person, or a story, there was a lot you couldn’t know from just an excerpt, a glance, or part of a chorus.

'Family Guy' has this weird thing of attracting people. People either hate it or can't get enough of it. There's really no one in between.