The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like.

...Everything you hate is everything that you created.

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

There's enough drama in my life whether I want it or not. There's enough going on right now to keep my head spinning all the time.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

Happiness depends not on things around me, but on my attitude.

It's very cool to be short, very cool. When I was in eighth grade, and the height I am now, I would just look at the cute little short girls and think, 'If only, if only.

The only thing that makes sense is if the universe is beautiful and simple and elegant.

You are safe," he said firmly. "You have my name and my family, my clan, and if necessary, the protection of my body as well. The man willna lay hands on ye again, while I live.

I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.

I don't go out of my way to write Weird Fiction, or in any other genre. Some of my stuff easily slips into the Weird slot.

I've got nothing against daylight. I don't live totally nocturnally. Only when I feel like it. Which is most of the time.

It is a rare and beautiful thing when we choose to offer love in situations when most people would choose to scorn or ignore.

Both of us don't go backwards and I think that is the key to the fight. Whoever ends up going backwards is going to lose.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.