I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

We're all human and life is complicated.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

You have to accept whatever comes, and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give.

What this anger hides is grief ... the reality that his wife didn't value their marriage as much as he did. He realizes it was a mistake.

If you only knew what it did to me to have lived in that house where the police were bursting in to take everyone away! I certainly didn't have a happy and serene childhood.

Once I got started acting I loved it.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

You should do what you have to do.

The dew waits for no voice to call it to the sun.

The hatched chick cannot go back to the shell, the falcon who has found the sky does not willingly sit the nest.

You get a role like this in a big action movie [like Jack Reacher] and you can go one of two ways: you can paint in broad strokes, which happens a lot in action films, or you can get very detailed.

...and I discovered something: the meaning of my life was whatever I wanted it to be.