There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Jan van Leyden announced that a new world order [anabaptism] had been revealed to him and promptly began to implement it. Money was abolished

Your true passion in life is what you’d be doing if somebody handed you 100 million dollars.

When you live in contrary to the demand of life, life doesn't work for you. Life rather works against you.

You just, barged in and flipped my entire world upside down, ” he says, voice heated. “I didn’t know what to do.

When book and reader's furrowed brow meet, it isn't always the book that's stupid.

In the Confederate Army, an officer was judged by stark courage alone, and this made it possible for the Confederacy to live four years.

If people like your music, you can't guarantee they're going to love you.

Not only is acting more than a part-time job, it's more than a full-time job. It's a full-time obsession.

We must defend freedom of expression and if I had to chose, I prefer the excess of caricature over the excess of censure.

Farmers have about given up hope of getting farm relief and have decided to fertilize instead.