If I try to understand what it means to be a Christian, I look at the two instructions that were given in the Bible that are paramount, and those are to love God with all...

The invitation for artists to compete to see who can be the most charitable is a wonderful thing.

The second half of the ’60s really was a kind of learning period, in terms of writing, for me.

The trouble with normal is it always gets worse.

There was a lot more music than the size of the place would indicate.

I think if I really put my mind to it I probably did think I would be, but under what conditions, … I expect to be doing this until I drop or become incapacitated. I...

Though chains be of gold, they are chains all the same

We had close to 30 pieces to choose from and it was more a desire to make an album that made a cohesive whole, … Most of the time when we put on records it’s...

All I ever thought was, ‘I’m going to do this as long as I can, and if I can’t get paid at it, I’ll be a bum doing it.’ And so, here I am.

I did a lot of writing for a lot of different kinds of bands that I was in and out of during those five years and that left me with a little body of songs...

I wanted to play rock and roll when I started playing. Nobody at that time ever thought about songwriting. You sang songs, that’s all. You sang other people’s songs. That’s all there were.

I’d always loved poetry and I’d always loved writing music and composing music, but I hadn’t thought of putting the two together until around that time.

All these years of thinking, ending up like this: In front of all this beauty, understanding nothing.

If I had a rocket launcher, some son of a bitch would die.

I wear my shadows where they’re harder to see, but they follow me everywhere. I guess that should tell me I’m travelling toward light.