When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it.

The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how

I hope people leave my show thinking they've had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they've wasted their time or didn't get their money's worth.

I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there.

My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

That memory of making the record is a huge part of the record itself.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.

I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.

Sometimes it's the smallest secrets that hold the most hope, the most fun, the most danger.

Freedom is indivisible, and when one man is enslaved, all are not free. JFK

Science is organized knowledge.

I don't think there is anything more bitter in American politics than a close election.

He is accelerating all the time. That last lap was run in 64 seconds and the one before in 62.

Capitalism is not a Ponzi scheme. Capitalism is a scheme of free markets.

It behooves us to accomplish what God requires of us, even when we are in the greatest despair respecting the results.

Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.

All I know is that so long I am asleep I am rid of all fears and hopes and toils and glory, and long live the man who invented sleep, the cloak that covers all human thirst.

The lowest-hanging fruit in preventative medicine is just to really focus on nutrition.