I'm not interested in a persona.

Musicians playing together, it's a conversation, and ideally I want our conversation to be really intriguing and interesting and beautiful.

I like unkempt; I don't mind if I have holes in my jacket or whatever. I think people should look more the way they feel.

I didn't want to be told what to do. I don't want to water down my music to fit into their formats. I know what rock and roll is to me, but everything's turning into one big commercial.

If you had told me at 45 years old that I would have to go on tour to get rest, I would've said, 'That's not how it works.' But nothing can be more gratifying. I'm a very hands-on dad.

It's funny, after a while, you get tired of having to fight someone because they don't like the way you look.

I never thought I'd be on the cover of the 'Atlanta Journal' unless I killed someone.

How many new rock stars have come around that have anything to say at all? Guys where you even want to know what they're thinking? Are they thinking? Where did it go astray?

In 2000, I fell in love. I had never felt anything like that before in my life. It kind of took me over.

Life is different than it was in the Nineties. I'm a dad, and there are other things I have to get done in an afternoon than just being an artist.

I'm not a big fan of Robert Plant's lyrics or his singing.

The universe was a vast expanse, far greater than he could ever conceive, and he had seen but a fraction of an inch of it.

What Romantic terminology called genius or talent or inspiration is nothing other than finding the right road empirically, following one's nose, taking shortcuts.

We are not here to see through one another, but to see one another through.

Looking back we see with great clarity, and what once appeared as difficulties now reveal themselves as blessings.

The one created thing which we cannot look at is the one thing in the light of which we look at everything.

An apology for America's values is never the right course.

[The Clinton health care initiative is] washed-over old-time bureaucratic liberalism, or centralized bureaucratic socialism.

I just got this new camera. It's very advanced - you don't even need it.

The great problem with the future is that we die there. This is why it is so hard to take the future personally, especially the longer future, because that world is suffused with our absence.

A natural-born photographer, with hypo in my blood.