The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

Society is not just the product of its individual members

I'm interested in time, fame, death, beauty, truth, all those things.

I need to be more romantic. I do. I know that's something women really appreciate.

Human life must be some form of mistake.

Everyone has an influence on public affairs if he will take the trouble to exert it.

I'd love to start some movements. What I'm tired of is irony, and sarcasm, and music/movies/what have you, not having the guts to mean anything.

Speaks well of a man to need a little something in this world. I wouldn't trust a man who could git through it cold sober.

Is it possible, I wonder, for a man to truly change? Or do character and habit form the immovable boundaries of our lives?

Mainly, I feel very fortunate to be able to do what I love.

Having a personality of caring about people is important. You can’t be a good leader unless you generally like people. That is how you bring out the best in them.