Mainstream media would convince you that there's commercial culture and that's all - but this other music is still here.

I try to look at this music career thing as the means to an end. And really, at the end of it, I see myself on a sailboat, sailing off the edge of the world.

Making music should not be left to the professionals.

As I look back over my life, before I had any real identity, I was a traveler. I grew up an Army brat, a runaway, an activist, and a musician. All my life I've been traveling.

I walked along that slippery slope where if you fail through lack of faith, you sell your soul to the devil.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

I accepted a change in my life. I didn't choose that change and those are the best changes to make.

Vengeance and revenge are just two words for pain.

Music is too important to be left to professionals.

I think people have to choose between living with contradictions or painting themselves into a corner. I have a lot of contradictions.

I'm one of the few that comes from this vantage point: I never tried to get a record deal.

What can I say Rango? What can I do to prove to you that I belong to you?

The glory of age is a gorgeous soul.

You can tell a lot about the intellectual and moral progress of a nation’s citizens, by the quality and nature of the films they watch.

He who thus considers things in their first growth and origin ... will obtain the clearest view of them.

I was never a critic.

People who pierce the veil of money rarely return with their faculties altogether intact.

With the Internet, if you erase something it just means you have to spend another half-minute to find it.

Anybody who should be deported, we should deport them.

As it somehow always manages before the winter solstice, but never after, the early darkness was cheerful and promising, even for those who had nothing.

Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.