It's fun to sing sad songs. And it's fun to listen to sad songs. Enjoyable. Satisfying. Something.

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

Will there be any bartenders up there in Heaven, will the pubs never close?

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.

To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity.

What I wanted to hear didn't exist, so it was necessary for me to go out and create it.

When you stand up acoustic in front of an audience, you really are a man without any clothes on. And that can be fun - it depends how much of an exhibitionist you are, I suppose. I quite enjoy it.

All audiences should be slightly off balance.

The best thing you've got going for you is individuality.

Amplifying acoustic instruments more than a little is really cheating, and everything becomes a compromise.

I have to remind myself not to set boundaries.

True literature can exist only where it is created, not by diligent and trustworthy functionaries, but by madmen, hermits, heretics, dreamers, rebels, and skeptics.

He that's cheated twice by the same man is an accomplice with the cheater.

I speak in a loud, clear voice and try not to bump into the furniture.

I have to do a better job of minimizing the damage in that inning and getting us back in there with the lead still.

My mother always said that everyone should be required to write an autobiography of their lives.

These children and their parents know that getting an education is not only their right, but a passport to a better future - for the children and for the country.

People don't like to read text on computer screens (and reading a lot of text on iPod screens gets very tiring very soon, just about as soon as running out of battery power).

I only put an album out every two or three years.

To study is not to consume ideas, but to create and re-create them.

In the New World, happiness is enforced.