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.

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

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.

You’re not mending anything, remember, Sand? The hedge.” He paused and shook his head at himself. “And Perrotte’s away for a few minutes, and you’re talking to yourself again.

Every message of despair is the statement of a situation from which everybody must freely try to find a way out.

Truth will ultimately prevail where there is pains to bring it to light.

Part of the western movement is this desire that we, Americans, have to keep pressing on.

We're just physically not physical enough.

...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be.

If you would be happy all your life, plant a garden.

I live on the same street as my family, actually. I live across the road. I'm a real family person!

Economic activity is moving from the Atlantic ocean to the Pacific ocean... Russia has a certain natural advantage because it also borders the Pacific Ocean.