There are more honest people and more good people than there are thieves and bad people. It's just always been that way.

Multimedia scares me off.

Interviews are usually a follow-up, like a press junket or a publicity junket, or something like that, and I’m not doing any of that right now. I don’t have any axes to grind.

You don't have to fight against being placed in a box any more than the number two has to fight against being the number three. I mean, two is not going to be the number three, ever.

As an artist, you don't think about the parabola or the arc you're describing or where you're going to ultimately end up, you're just kind of crawling around, seeing what's out there.

I just finished a novel, and I'm back kind of noodling on the screenplays. Screenplays are tough. I am making music, I'm just not sure what kind of music it is or where it's going.

It's important to be precise about words, because of the thought value of them-they frame and shape so much of the way we understand things.

I'm not performing now. What I do now is listen to music all day long. Listening is very nourishing to me. I might go back to perform, I might make another record. I've got a record half finished.

Behind every dark cloud there's usually rain

You have to have access to ideas. The Internet is facilitating that access to ideas. In 25 years, the way that data's going to flow back and forth, we don't quite understand yet.

If you love music, than you can play music.

Even the good guys, ' she said, 'can't win all the time.

There's always SOMEONE in support as long as he can be assured or he himself feels confident of getting, in return, SOMETHING beneficial of any sort.

Wisdom never comes to those who believe they have nothing left to learn.

What is so important is that you play for the artist and for the record and for the song ... everything else falls into place ... my solo has to be a complement to the singer and the song.

...forgetting is vastly underrated as a mental operation.

Life is meant to be abundant in ALL areas.

Loving yourself—it really takes a daily practice.

Through reading literature we can make ghosts speak to us, and we can speak back to them.

I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.

I'm a wuss - a complete wuss!