...Everything you hate is everything that you created.

How do I explain Neil Young? Great question! I explain Neil Young as, I would kill to see his acoustic shows.

The blues is something separate from what I do. They connect at certain spots, but blues is different. I wouldn't put it in with what my career has been. That would be a whole separate wing.

In this world, I've got no choice: there is nothing left at all; and you don't notice, but that's all right: you don't know what it's like.

How can you qualify the difference between a sin and a lie.

You can realign people's physical chemistry with sound.

I don't like the dislocation of being away for months at a time. It's not conducive to having a life.

I have music in my head constantly. I have to have a soundtrack in my head.

There's enough drama in my life whether I want it or not. There's enough going on right now to keep my head spinning all the time.

There are a lot of people, especially the younger generation who don't feel that they need to support the artists by buying their music because they grew up learning that record companies are evil.

Style jazzes up your canvas.

Love always hurts. That’s one thing I know you know. But it’s worth it. That’s what you don’t know. Yet.

My mom always makes the whole family pile into the car and drive around to look at the Christmas lights. My brother and I never want to do it, but my mom just loves it!

The big shift in approach on education that we are taking - which is different from what happened before - is that we trust teachers and we trust heads.

If I had chosen the populist course, it would have been a breach of the trust placed in me by the people.

Do, and have done. The former is far the easiest.

Americans have long recognized the need to protect our public lands and their vast resources

Teaching high school was my real training as a novelist: it got me out of my head, and (at least a little) out of books, and invested me in the lives of others and the world around me.

The craft of writing is the art of penetrating other minds with the figures that are in your own mind.

I think religion is a funny thing because, when you see somebody who can really break it down, sometimes it feels foolish what you believe.