The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.

Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now.

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.

I just love putting on a show. I get a tremendous sense of community out of it.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

I do find that most fans are aware of my writing career and have known my real name for many years.

If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.

If somebody had said to me back in 1988 that I'd still be making music in 25 years' time, to start with I would have keeled over with shock because I wouldn't have believed them.

There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

Life is what you make of it.You have to decide what you want in life.

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

Linguine linguistics that left my verbal essence saucy, Send a message, leave you sleepin' next to headless horsey.

Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.

He could've had Jesus, Buddha, he could have had every God in his corner, it wouldn't have helped him against me.

Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of all woes, brother to Death, sweetly thyself dispose.

Everything that divides men, everything that separates or herds men together in categories, is a sin against humanity.

You're trying to play an archetype on one hand and a character on the other, so I felt insanely frustrated, right up until the last shot, and then it ended.

If you think about filmmaking as an entire spectrum, starting with the writer and ending with maybe the marketing department, the actor's contribution is a rather slender band.