I like to carry around extremely pretentious books, and I don't know if I can read them, but if I hold them near me, it imbues me with a sense of powerful intelligence.

I was listening to this record by Paul Desmond called First Place Again. It's incredibly gorgeous. There is nothing better that you would want to get from music than you get from that record.

I am a complete jazz nerd.

When I do older folk songs, I'm not doing them because they're old. I have no interest in reviving or continuing a tradition. I'm just doing them because they're great songs.

Guitar comes more out of its limitations for me, like putting it in a weird tuning and then just go places.

If I pick up a fiddle, I don't compose on it, so much as I just play whatever.

I'm not really a folk singer, but I love the music and there's certain lines that will get just stuck in my head, and they seem to be stuck there for a reason, and I start singing them.

Reading books is fantastic. I didn't do it until ten years ago. It's great.

Nothing impossible if you do it with love.

People who own the world outright for profit will have to be stopped by influence, by power, by us.

time and attention is just like the check, you do not just issue them to anything or anybody at all

I agree with Chomsky in almost nothing. When it comes to innate structures and so on, I'm very skeptical

I felt guilty because I survived.

There is no religion in which everyday life is not considered a prison; there is no philosophy or ideology that does not think that we live in alienation.

Anyone can be an idealist. Anyone can be a cynic. The hard part lies somewhere in the middle.

You count up your dead, every one. Always. Recall them, each and all - every face, every heart.

Faction before blood.

If Chisora wants to kiss me, OK, if he likes me so much, but the best answer for him will be an answer with a fist in the ring.