I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

... just because [butterflies'] lives were short didn't mean they were tragic... See, they have a beautiful life.

...ежели разобраться, что такое счастье? Это - жизнь без страха...(Корнелий Глас)

Despite all of the social advances in women’s rights and the push for gender equality in the workplace, it seems like modern men still want a woman that they can take care of at home.

For a second, I feel a sense of overwhelming grief: for how things change, for the fact that we can never go back. I'm not certain of anything anymore. I don't know what will happen--

The acceptance of just one person is enough to silence the rejection of thousands.

It [England] is a family in which the young are generally thwarted and most of the power is in the hands of irresponsible uncles and bedridden aunts.

sometimes words are not big enough to contain all the feelings you are trying to pour into them.

You can get away with stuff in a one-page story that you can't get away with in a book.

To the patient, any operation is momentous.

How can you look at this and not see it as the symbol for the self-referencing nature of progressive evolution.