I think I've had the slowest, most methodical career in the business.

I talk to people who are musicians, and they go, Oh this is hell. And I go, Are you kidding me? You never put tar paper on a roof, did ya?

When people ask me really stupid questions or get it really wrong, I feel embarrassed for them. I don't really feel angry at them.

My only expenses are probably guitar strings and records.

I don't spend as much time on my hair as people think. I get out of the shower, whack some grease on there and I'm done.

I never set out to write a certain kind of song, I just play my guitar and see if I catch something.

I believe the angels listen, God hears us pray. And I believe in a beautiful day.

I didn't grow up in the typical happy American home, but music was always a safe and wonderful place for me to go.

I keep things pretty simple.

I wear a lot of second hand clothes unless I have a concert and then I wear beaded and sequined second hand clothes. No stylist dresses me although I do have a woman that assists me with the buttons.

Singing is something that I'm always happy to do it and going in the studio I never felt any pressure. I just feel like I get to sing, you know. It's fun.

You invoke a new futurewhen you envision your pastin the light of your present.

The conversation on global warming has been stalled because a shrinking group of denialists fly into a rage when it's mentioned.

Life is a forced state! I am surprized that we live, rather than that our friends die.

Life already has so many boundaries and pressures - why add more in the garden?

But faithfulness can feed on suffering, And knows no disappointment.

I never quite know when I'm not writing. Sometimes my wife comes up to me at a party and says, "Dammit, Thurber, stop writing." She usually catches me in the middle of a paragraph.

Medicines cannot drug away the cellular defects that develop in response to improper nutrition throughout life.

Americans were told repeatedly by President Bush and Vice President Cheney that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. None were ever found.

Renunciation is the central sun, round which devotion, knowledge and the rest revolve like planets.

For the spell is older than experience. For the tale is older than the record.