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 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.

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 wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

I was caught in a love triangle with one dead side.

We don't want to feel less when we have finished a book

Those who have suffered in the hands of others, know what it is to be free.

Robert Pattinson loves to read and watch old movies and he’s very smart.

I suppose there is one friend in the life of each of us who seems not a separate person however dear and beloved but an expansion an interpretation of one's self.

A sophistical rhetorician inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity.

Where did you go to, if I may ask?' said Thorin to Gandalf as they rode along. To look ahead,' said he. And what brought you back in the nick of time?' Looking behind,' said he.

Some of my best friends are Jewish contributors to the Democratic Party.

The only man completely at peace is a man without a navel.

As I grow up, the lessons I learn in love and relationships and how we treat each other are hopefully maturing - hopefully.