When the mighty chains of darkness had me on the ropes, everyone said quit now, that's when I found hope.

In the early days, I had very little idea about arrangements, and I wrote songs a little flat, as it were, just on an acoustic guitar. They didn't really have quite enough nuance.

My Zombie apocalypse plan is simple but effective; I fully intend to die in the very first wave.

If I could smoke from more than one orifice, I most certainly would.

I do not wanna write a song like 'Coathanger' so Andrew Breitbart can rage against me on his web site. It's not my idea of fun.

Mostly I've never let record companies become involved with my music, which was a very smart thing that my first manager Dave Robinson did, to keep them out of it.

Oh, man, pop singers are terrible actors. We're all bad.

I went to Morocco, joined a band called Pegasus, ran out of money, went to Gibraltar and worked on the docks, writing songs about the sun and the morning and the birds.

I started to work up in my old bedroom, playing, writing songs, and it somehow came to me that I could introduce soul music. Nobody seemed to be doing that.

Some people are in charge of pens who shouldn't be in charge of brooms.

Do not seek to control other souls.

For intuitive people, it can be exhausting having to constantly manage other people’s emotional needs on personal social media accounts.

It is only people who show upright positions in standing for the truth that win at last.

Nothing clears up a case so much as stating it to another person.

Hope clouds observation.

It's hard when you're doing a film based on a true story to really figure out what all those relationships were.

The mind I love must have wild places.

Art seems to me to be above all a state of soul.

I believe that if a man wanted to walk on water, and was prepared to give up everything in life, he could do it.

My dad was a preacher. My relationship, for example, with my father -- very difficult, and very painful, and it took me 50 years to wipe the face of my father off the face of God.