I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

We're all human and life is complicated.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

Time is the raw material from which products are made, when products are sold, money is made.

Her dad turned to me. "You. Follow Me.""Woof, " I said.

There is no more important struggle for American democracy than ensuring a diverse, independent and free media. Free Press is at the heart of that struggle.

I play Hopkins' daughter. Brad Pitt plays Death. He's a very-good looking Death. With him, dying isn't so bad.

We were going to have an all-day drinking binge. Gonna ride our bikes, hang out... do naughty things. But I started feeling this overwhelming guilt.

There's a lot of falses - out there and if I take up for myself, it's a bad thing. Sometimes you just got to live with it, but for the most part, I'm like look, I don't want no problems with nobody.

I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

Money comes and goes. When you pass away it's about what you've done to make this world a better place.

Money-or rather the lack of it to carry out my ideas-may worry me, but it does not excite me.

Be secret and exult, Because of all things known That is most difficult.