My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

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

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.

Do not believe a thing because you read it in a book! Do not believe a thing because another has said it so! Find out the truth for yourself.

Why lie? I'm not going to be a hypocrite and say the opposite of what I think, like some others do.

By the mid 1920s the typical American town was in full sexual bloom. The change came with erotic fashions, literature and movies, and an unsuspected sexual aid, the automobile.

The day of my spiritual awakening was the day I saw and knew I saw all things in God and God in all things.

Life on earth means: the sprouting of wings.

Black and white are the most ravishing colors of all in film.

I've actually rented Bjork's swan dress. I know that's kind of recycling, but I saw An Inconvenient Truth.

He who loves not lives not.

I've always really made my living in television. Television has always been so good to me.

if i win and you die, i dont have a home to go back to. you are my life.