Good art doesn't really have an expiration date on it. That's something to be happy about, if you're making art.

I cannot wait for all the mistakes we have yet to make

Trying to find comfort in perpetual discomfort has been my life's work.

Some people like to say serendipitous. I like to say magical.

I'm one of those people that if you're told that if you put your hand in the fire, you'll burn your hand, I won't listen.

And because my teeth don't bite, I can take them out dancing I can take my little teeth out and show them a real good time

There is something to mystery. You make up this entire world that you fit into because of what the actual music does to you.

I think five percent of all songs can be love songs, and another five percent can be miscellaneous or political, but the rest should just be about medieval feminists.

I heard somebody say that the war ended today, but everybody knows it's going still.

Cripple crow say something for our grieving, where do we go once we start leaving. Well close that wound or else keep on bleeding and change your tune, it's got no meaning.

People want to be successful, and they want to be acknowledged for what they do. Sometimes they make really great art and aren't. Historically, the best artists weren't. But their work survived.

Human relationships are binary: they are complete and fully loving when both people are authentic or they are not at all.

I don't need the most beautiful woman in the world I just need a woman who makes my world beautiful

I've looked that old scoundrel death in the eye many times but this time I think he has me on the ropes.

You hear it in your brain. Whatever makes sense. Some songs work well as quartet songs, sometimes they don't.

I hate to sound esoteric, but there is something about a house that leads you to that one chair, that one corner, where you just sit and feel comfortable.

Etching is a beautiful medium. The result is rich, subtle tones achieved in no other way.

I am somebody who - my path to my faith is very kind of individual, and I don't want to be lumped into the category of those Westboro Baptists.

From a generation that came of age during the Great Depression, millions of our country's best and bravest took up arms in a worldwide struggle against tyranny.

I only know two pieces; one is 'Clair de Lune' and the other one isn't.

Raucous drunken trumpets and instrumentation tend to guide the way you think. They can give you a path to follow lyrically.