Nylon string is still a new love and I'm not tired of it yet.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

We're all human and life is complicated.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

Always, it is the poor people who pay. And always, it is the poor people's women who pay the most.

Do not just look at your boyfriend as just a boyfriend. Look at him as a friend, too.

That's a big love letter," she says, squinting. I know what I'm going to say and for a moment I wish there was a film crew documenting my day-to-day life: "I've got a big heart," I say.

I knew I had to be a journalist because I'm deeply curious about the world.

I am full of theories that are based on a very liquid foundation, because I used to be a drinker.

I wanted to be a poet when I was 20; I had no interest in fiction or biography and precious little interest in history, but those three elements in my life have become the most important.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

The World is perfect as it is, including my desire to change it

A Discordian is someone who sees windmills and thinks they might be giants

Your reputation is none of your business.