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

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

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.

This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

Sadness was so claustrophobic.

I've alway found that the most beautiful people, truly beautiful inside and out, are the ones who are quietly unaware of their effect.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

A lot of peopletell me I'm a bit dreamy, but I like the idea of that. Of being somewhere else.

Anything can be done if you find friends to do it with.

Behold, when I come unto the children of Israel, and shall say unto them, The God of your fathers hath sent me unto you; and they shall say to me, What is his name? what shall I say unto them?

For those who are walking in their purpose, even the great tribulation will be a minor event. There will be far more attention on what Christ is doing than on what the antichrist is doing.

Never set goals you can reach in your lifetime.

A gentle sense of humor will be alert to detect anything that savors of a pious 'act' on the part of the penitent.