I have a lot of problems understanding connections between people and how to negotiate that. It makes everything hard offstage.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

If that's what you want to do, then you should go do it-and do it well.

Wisdom is the intelligent use of our knowledge, whereas sensibility is an intelligent use of our judgment.

Smartass Disciple: Master, why heaven is up there and hell is down there ?Master of Stupidity: If otherwise, it wouldn't be celebrated as ascension day.

Anger is an expensive luxury in which only men of certain income can indulge.

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

It is a company's customers who effectively control what it can and cannot do.

I don't think they knew exactly where they were going with the character, but they lay those stories out ahead of time, so they had some idea where they wanted it to go.

There is something beautiful in the mundane if you take enough microscope to it and focus in on something that seems innocuous to begin with.

I did not wish to take a cabin passage, but rather to go before the mast and on the deck of the world, for there I could best see the moonlight amid the mountains. I do not wish to go below now.

As you may know my use of Celtic music is extremely simple and short. However there is something about it that will remain in your mind for a long, long time.