Most of my favourite guitarists are self-taught, because in a way there's less of a reverence for the instrument itself, so you end up finding and inventing however you want to play it.

It’s important to me that people hear my music on its own merit and not in relation to another project I’ve done. Ultimately, the music has its own energy and message and stands on its own.

There are famous examples of people who just had really strange ways - [Jimi] Hendrix being the biggest example of that. Or someone like Keith Richards, he just has a really idiosyncratic style.

In a way it's the emotional feeling that you get in a good rock song or folk song, there's just nothing that rivals that.

American politics are important because it affects the entire world in often negative ways.

A great painting is something that you can come back to again and again.

Your coffin reached the monstrous hole. And a part of me went down into the muddy earth with you and lay down next to you and died with you.

There should ne’er be a timeWhen a duty or dimeDoth outshineThe importance of family.

Don't you dare call me arrogant!If ever I had any at all-which I deny!- how much could I possibly have left after having been ridden over rough-shod by you and Thomas, do you imagine?

Rising inequality can create a more highly leveraged economy, and it can then make the economy vulnerable to a crash like 2008.

A plaque and platinum status is whack if I'm not the baddest.

I am interested in making up a good case for distortion, as I am coming to believe it is the only way to make people see.

Hee that hath right, feares; he that hath wrong, hopes.

The societal division of labor obtains the dignity of an ontological condition.

Live with the gods. And he does so who constantly shows them that his soul is satisfied with what is assigned to him.

I think we should just tip the government if it does a good job. Fifteen percent is the standard tip, isn't it?