If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."

I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet.

I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you.

Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly.

The disciplined rule our world.

It's like someone took the darkness of the universe and put it into your eyes... You became a slave to the monsters living in you. You were light, but now you allow it be seen.

Moron, your bus is leaving-from Groundhogs Day Bill Murray

It's true we're all a little insane.

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with.

Napoleon has humbugged me, by God; he has gained twenty-four hours' march on me.

Why is everybody so obsessed? Money can't buy us happiness

In a plan of life based on nonviolence, woman has as much right to shape her own destiny as man has to shape his.

I believe that the essence of photography is black and white. Color is but a deviance.