The word "archive" seems so reassuring, but I'm not sure about these things that are now being called archives. Is anything lost by the fact that the word has come to mean so many more things.

There's part of me that is a strict materialist.

The word 'archive' seems so reassuring, but I have a lot ofconcern over the longevity of documentary materials.

Records have always been the most extraordinary form of time travel for me, and that's why it matters to know when something was circulated, and if it had an audience of five or 50,000.

For me, it's good to have those dissimilar modes of songwriting sit side-by-side on a record, because they yield such different results.

I don't write poetry for the page because my inclination in that area is satisfied by songwriting. "Ornamental Hermit" was a comparatively effortless song to write, which is rare for me.

Sometimes, it is how you shine in the darkness during other people's misery that is remembered more than anything you could have said or done when you have suffered just as much.

It was something new for her. New roads, new people, new places, new opportunities and new perspective. This is the one thing that inevitably moves a person through the grief. Growth heals grief.

The liberal soul shall be made fat.

We need to repeal Dodd-Frank act. It is eviscerating small businesses and small banks.

My main interest is just to work with people who have beautiful, interesting, emotive voices; I'm not too concerned whether someone is famous.

Because what we have done, we have thrown clothes off and they have picked them up and put them on.

I feel like personally I have more drive now than I did then probably because I care more and also because I've reached the mid-life point.

We become fully human when we become more than human, when we let God bring us beyond ourselves.

God don't like complaints.

When a job is to be done there's no use putting it off.