I don't find inspiration by just sitting down with a guitar anymore. I lost that. I started being so interested in other kinds of music.

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.

But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.

There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous.

At once i knew i was not magnificent.

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.

If you don't feel the blues, then you're not listening. Then you're just a professor or something.

As far as I'm concerned, everything's ham and jam.

I hope that your committee will not permit doubt as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation

Often a purple patch or two is tacked on to a serious work of high promise, to give an effect of colour.

Our culture is in moral chaos. On TV we celebrate freaks instead of honest, decent people.

A nation of ants, morose, frigid, and still preserving the same dread of happiness and joy as in the days of John Knox.

When it's over I just want to be able to look in the mirror and say, 'Well, you were a half-decent player.'

Actually, I only left twice. I left then, and then rejoined literally two years later for Going For The One.

When I've heard all I need to make a decision, I don't take a vote. I make a decision.

One of the greatest challenges companies face in adjusting to the impact of social media, is knowing where to start.