There's no right or wrong - I think people can be messy in a very soulful way. The point in the end is to make people feel something, and there's so many different ways to do that.

I grew up playing classical guitar, so everything I learned was rooted in technique, form, presentation.

I've learned after doing a couple records that if it feels good and it's easy, then that's usually a good sign. And that feeling sorta went with us to Nashville - everything was just natural.

I've always been pretty unfaithful - I've never stuck to one kind of genre or music.

Marx made theory... Lenin applied it with his sense of large-scale social organization... And Henry Ford made the work of the socialist state possible.

I just want to be a man who has been to a concert with a girl in a red dress

I spread the message of hope and of unity. That's what gets me up in the morning. I can tell you what is wrong, but I can't tell you how to fix it. I'm a raptivist, not a politician. I deal in hope.

If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

You can always say sorry but the real apology is when you hear the sadness in their voice and see the look in their eyes. And you realize that they have hurt themselves just as much.

First, how to sac my queen, then rook, then bishop, then knight, then pawns.

Fitz: How bad is it? Nighteyes: Mind your own business. Fitz: You ARE my business. Nighteyes: Sharing pain doesn’t loosen it. Fitz: I’m not sure about THAT.

The faults of great authors are generally excellences carried to an excess.

I teach people how to treat me by what I will allow.