When I started to write a tune, I just wrote the nearest at hand, which was what was happening in my own life.

I love Neil Young. His songs were the first songs I learned to play, and I recommend anyone who is starting guitar to learn Neil Young songs first.

Most of the famous love affairs of literature or film were quite short. What was Romeo & Juliet? How long were they together? A few days.

I like playing in other projects.

If somebody sings a song that I wrote, I feel like its a nice point of validation for the song, because it shows that the song is able to stand on its own. I like that.

I love having other people sing my songs.

If you write a song, and you go into a restaurant, and there's a guy with a piano singing and he's playing piano, singing your song, or you hear it at a wedding or at an airport... it's fun!

Art isn't life, you know. It if were, the world would go up in flames. It's artifice. By definition.("Talking In The Dark")

Perseverance n.: A lowly virtue whereby mediocrity achieves a glorious success.

I think too much. Being in my body is much more satisfying than being in my head.

It seems to me probable that of all our economic life the element on which we are inclined to place too low an estimate is advertising.

Give me romance. Flash. Give me denial.

He who is attached to things will suffer much.

Don't tell me women are not the stuff of heroes.

This attitude means you haven't met a girl worthy of your attention. You'll want to get caught if the right girl comes along.

In Italy they take cheap cloth and make it look expensive, but I take expensive cloth and make it look cheap. They just don't understand.