They both sang. My grandmother had a very haunted mountain voice and would sing hymns. My grandpa would sing but in a very, very subdued way.

I live out of cans a lot. But I try to indulge only in healthy canned food.

It's meant to reaffirm the validity of that music - clean, minimalist, honest, classic music.

In the past 3-4 years I've developed a habit of keeping numerous small cassette recorders in my house and in a bag with me so that I'm able to commit to tape memory song ideas on a constant basis.

In the dark morning silence, I placed a gun to her head. She wore red dresses, but now she lay dead.

Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.

But that is a valid, continuing service that that music - which is, in some cases, 80 or 90 years old - is rendering. And proving its own timelessness.

I'm a thousand miles from nowhere, time don't matter to me. I'm a thousand miles from nowhere and there's not place that I want to be.

Control success before it controls you.

My music is very personal. I've created it in solitude. I face a white wall and beller. I like that sound - the expression of loneliness. That's what it's all about.

Quality is timeless: It will clearly define itself.

To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent.

Red's had her day. It's time to give pink a go.

The click [of a light switch] is the modern triumphal clarion proceeding us through life, announcing our entry into every lightless room.

I don't like to be different; I would like to be the same.

I look down and see little kids in the audience and I'm like, "Oh man, I hope I'm not poisoning these kids!"

The most interesting things you learn in an interviews come from the: 'interesting', 'tell me more'

Photography is essentially a personal matter - a search for inner truth.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.

The answer to your prayer is not according to your faith while you are talking, but according to your faith while you are working.