Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it.

So much of reading and writing to me is about being elsewhere, no matter how much I love where I am.

Every time I fall in love with a book, I just feel grateful and thrilled to have it in my life.

Richard Shindell works impressive alchemy with the plainest, most primal American pop melodies.

The ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.

Love the work: the grind, the dreaming, the distracted not-sleep, all of it. It’s the one thing in the job that will always be there, and the real pleasure in the profession. Everything else is luck.

Be like the sun who fell in love with the moon and shared all his light.

Metal rusts, music lasts forever.

Self-improvement and practice are the golden tools for earning the award of excellence.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

I'm still digesting the '90s. It takes some time to get perspective.

Why do you judge me as a musician, John? All I'm interested in is making money.

Our spirituality lies in wholeness.

I never heard nobody in my audience call me any kind of names.

The stage is a training ground and it's where you learn what's funny and what's successful.