Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

The nice thing about true hopelessness is that you don't have to try again.

If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

I've received two key pieces of advice in regard to my books. The first is, "You should lay off the f-bombs." The other is, "You should add more f-bombs.

The past is never past and the present was seeming increasingly absent.--Here Tomorrow

Like all writers, my greatest inspiration, my ultimate muse, is a deadline.

Indifference is isolation. In difference is texture and wonder.

The aim of art is to create space.

What do you believe in?--In this, that the weights of all things must be determined anew.

Perfect discipline requires recognition of infallibility. Infallibility requires the observance of discipline.

An eastern contemporary, with a grain of wisdom in its wit, says that "when the whites win a fight, it is a victory, and when the Indians win it, it is a massacre."

The men may be the head of the house, but the women are the neck and they can turn the head any way they want.

Nadal's the best player in history on [clay], and he is one of the best-ever players that played this game.