You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

Learn more than others. Work more than others. Succeed more than others. Give more than others.

Some arrogant feel very confident that they are the best.That's pity. Much better men let them feel so for a reason.

I'm always careful about the thing I'm writing to make sure a viewer can imagine it happening to themselves.

Words are good for saying what things are, but sometimes they don't function for what things aren't.

But Connecticut and Rhode Island have originally realized the most perfect polity as to a legislature.

We have to see conflict as thinking and then get really good at it.

Hatred is a prolific vice; envy, a barren vice.

I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.

See you in the funny papers," he said. Jaunty, he reminded himself; always jaunty. In my panache is their hope for salvation.

A man looks pretty small at a wedding, George. All those good women standing shoulder to shoulder, making sure that the knot's tied in a mighty public way.