I've always felt that there's a point where a piece seems to be alive, that is, living. And that's the point where I know the composition is finished.

Performing is very much like cooking: putting it all together, raising the temperature.

I've never been able to arouse any interest in myself for digitally produced sound, and so the computer turns me off.

If you put yourself in a situation of unpredictability and then find that it's completely possible to accept it, then you become an observer.

The basic notion was the idea that the loudspeaker should have a voice which was unique and not just an instrument of reproduction, but an instrument unto itself.

Loudspeakers should be made to be destroyed and... disposable.

I am perfectly willing for my music to exist with somebody else's taste.

I persist in performing.

But grief changes. It softens, adapts its shape to become a part of you. That kind of sorrow never gets any lighter, but you grow accustomed to the weight as you carry it on.

To live means to have ... a mission to fulfill-and in the measure in which we avoid setting our life to something we make it empty.

You've got to know your limitations. I don't know what your limitations are. I found out what mine were when I was twelve. I found out that there weren't too many limitations, if I did it my way.

I took guitar a while back, and my heart wasn't in it at the time, but I'm ready to try it again. I sing in the car, at home - it's a huge part of my life, especially since I'm from Tennessee.

He looked like someone with a steerage ticket on the titanic. Somebody who'd be standing in line at Ellis Island. Undiluted and old-blooded. Also cute.

51 Martin [guitar] sounded pretty good as new guitar. Martin has several levels of guitars now, and this one is pretty good.

Evolution is not something to be feared. It's to be celebrated, embraced, and understood.

It was as though he didn't exist, and then suddenly, he was everywhere.

The blank page doesn't bother me. It's the voice in my head (not always my own) that gives me the yips. It's worse when I'm not making stuff up.