I do the protest stuff. I do country and western. I play both acoustic and electric guitar in a lot of different styles, from loud, psychedelic stuff to quiet finger-picking.

There are no bridges in folk songs because the peasants died building them.

Sometimes you have trouble because someone 'likes' your music so much. They follow you around for hours singing little bits of the songs, or just freaking out.

People love the electric rake. You just hit it or whatever you want to do. You can't play 'Swanee River' on it. You have to just make terrible noise. Occasionally, it will make a sound like a note.

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

There's no type of music I don't like. I think it's important to be able to make fun of all types.

The dead to the grave, the living to the loaf.

Any critic is entitled to wrong judgments, of course. But certain lapses of judgment indicate the radical failure of an entire sensibility.

As I put out more music, I really want to get to the point where people feel like my show is a must-see.

The human world is made of stories, not people. The people the stories use to tell themselves are not to be blamed

Even Jesus had trouble with 12 guys.

When you give to your mate, you give to your children. There is no better way to teach love than to practice love. Kids are much better at watching and emulating than they are at listening.

My family's really close.

In the 17th and 18th centuries there was a kind of Protestantism that said, "If you could only get rid of the Bishop, then you'd be a true Christian".

Berlusconi's advice to Italians trying to escape poverty: "Do it my way and earn more money".

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.