When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

We're all human and life is complicated.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

I don't know where I am going, I just know I had to leave. Everything I was I carry with me, everything I will be lies waiting on the road ahead.

If you do not know the names of things, the knowledge of them is lost, too.

Sailboats are the slowest form of transportation on Earth with the possible exeption of airline flights that go through O'Hare.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist.

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

I've always been curious about the psychology of the person behind the mask.

I just want to say something. 655,000 Iraqi civilians are dead. Who are the terrorists?

We can't allow multinational oil companies boasting of record profits to gouge consumers... We must do what we can to fix this problem.

Synchronicities fall under the "magic" heading to me.