One of the ideas behind doing this acoustic record is that I didn't want to have to produce it by committee.

We have a need to be religious, we need to worship, we need to build totems and shrines and icons, but nobody's sure in honor of what.

An un-named song is like an un-named child, it has no identity.

As soon as someone like me or David Lynch pops up everyone says hallelujah, how weird.

I thin many people's deviant behavior starts with dreams because dreams are so non-linear... as if there's an assumption that everything has to be linear or has to be plotted.

After Nashville sushi and a long debate on Bob Dylan, we went into Woodland Studios at 10 pm that night for a look around, and jammed for 5 hours solid.

Every so often you have to increase your profile so you can let it lower again, like a balloon.

There's nothing in the future and there's nothing in the past. There is only this one moment, and you've got to make it last.

I can tell how I'm doing, and I can tell if the crowd is particularly dead.

The universe is based on sullen entropy; It falls apart as it goes on

In this world of doubt, one thing is certain for me; that I will go on writing songs up to and - I hope, through heavenly means or diabolical - beyond the day I die.

The taste one gets of death in dreams I find more penetrating and atmospheric than the ordinary fear one might suffer while awake.

Even if the world was falling apart, that was no reason to let his appearance and good habits fall apart with it.

I'm not like anyone. I'm me.

If the heart becomes hardened, the eye becomes dry.

We must remind ourselves that to do what is possible we must sometimes challenge ourselves with the impossible.

How do you know that the incessant progress of science will not compel scientists to consider that life has existed during eternity, and not matter?

If you want more, you have to require more from yourself.

I have like 10 different processes I go to. My favorite one is to just go to an obscure neighborhood I haven't been to in decades and just wander around.

"It would seem that you have no useful skill or talent whatsoever" he said. "Have you thought of going into teaching?"

I've been influenced by someone or [English artists] work. I mentioned Hans Coper as an example.