The best thing is I can say 'I'm working' when I'm having a cup of tea and a cigarette and fiddling on the guitar.

My motive has always been just to be who I am, and play what I love- if that doesn't get me anywhere then at least it wasn't because I tried to be something I'm not.

I like to think illegal downloads only do real damage to the endless amounts of careless pop music though.

We'll show the fire how to burn.

I've been worryin' that we all, live our lives, in the confines of fear

Keep your head up, keep your heart strong. Keep your mind set, keep your hair long.

I love playing music - and live especially - and I love being on the road. It gets in your blood.

If I wasn't a musician... I think I'd just be endlessly traveling.

I took the sing from your song. I made a bed where you don't belong.

You can break a man with hope.

Who was it had said when you fall in love all the popular songs suddenly seemed to mean something.

My mom makes something called green pie, which I thought was a delicacy that many people only had at Thanksgiving, but it turns out it was just Jell-O with whipped cream on it. And it's delicious.

I like women who are so real that they become as cowardly as certain men, as heroic as others and as sexual and dominating as men can be. And as you can imagine everything I do is [misunderstood].

I'm going to tell you the most important secret of human life. The most critical need of the human soul is to be kind.

God, I wish you could have been there.

My mom brought me up to be a feminist. She would always point out to my brother and me that our culture does often portray women like objects...

Very good coaches for ski jumpers stand at the top of the slope and watch the jumpers prepare, rather than standing at the bottom and watching them land.

I like to layer when I fly - the climate always changes from the airport to the plane to the new city.

Interpretation blocks reception while masquerading as reception. Rightness does not need interpretation; it requires simple acceptance and nothing else.