Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

Children make up the best songs, anyway. Better than grown-ups. Kids are always working on songs and throwing them away, like little origami things or paper airplanes. They don’t care if they lose it; they’ll...

I’ve always been a word guy, I like weird words and I like American slang and all that and words that are no longer being used… I like to drag them out of the box...

And I remember quiet evenings trembling close to you…

My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why don’t you have a straight job like everyone else?” they asked me the other day. I told them this story:...

Well, it’s either kiss me or kill me, that’s how I see it.

The world is a hellish place, and bad writing is destroying the quality of our suffering.

I made a wish on a sliver of moonlightA sly grin and a bowl full of stars

He likes a day in the studio to end, he says, “when my knees are all skinned up and my pants are wet and my hair’s off to one side and I feel like I’ve...

There ain’t no such thing as the devil that’s just god when he’s drunk.

I like beautiful melodies telling me terrible things.

You must have brought the bad weather with youThe sky’s the color of leadAll you’ve left me is a featherOn an unmade bed

There ain’t no devil, only God when he’s drunk.

I don’t have a drinking problem ‘Cept when I can’t get a drink.

The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

The Universe is making music all the time.

When the weather’s rough and it’s whiskey in the rain it’s best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

a foreign affair juxtaposed with a statesideand domestically approved romantic fancy is mysteriously attractive due to circumstances knowing it will only be parlayed into a memory