I can remember back as far as age 8, performing with the Boston Folk Song Society. It was a Woody Guthrie song.

I drive a lot. Just for pleasure. Sometimes I'll get in the Cadillac and drive around the city or the country, kind of trying to get lost basically. Y'know, just see where roads lead.

You should never rely on interviews with musicians as being factual. Most of them are mangled and even have made up stuff in them, that is to say, made up stuff by the writer or editor.

Wise is the tongue, wet of perfect thought.

The first thing that inspires any song is a chord progression. When I have one I really like, I get into the lyrics even more.

I have two step-kids and one of my own on the way. That's three college funds.

If you're a good band then the filter of the band is pretty strong.

I listen to Neil Young and jazz and classical stations and, if my girlfriend's driving, it tends to be Hall & Oates.

I think everybody has a painter inside of them somewhere.

Everyone thinks I'm a wimp and even my own band hates me. Oh, well. I guess I'll just flip 'em the bird!

I don't like to have everything all worked out in my head because there's always a chance of it coming out different than you think it should anyway.

Circumstances, events or situations do not have inherent meanings except what you give them

Besides, I don’t understand people who read a book for pleasure and then ruminate on the book’s ideas. Paper was invented so we wouldn’t have to keep all those thoughts in our heads.

As I see it every day you do one of two things: build health or produce disease in yourself.

Chain letters are the postal equivalent of intestinal flu: you get it and pass it along to your friends.

If you never take a chance, you will never be defeated - but you will never accomplish anything either.

The urge to make art or contemplate philosophy does not go away when you are sick. Those urges just become transfigured by illness.

All houses in which men have lived and suffered and died are haunted houses.

Gentleness and repose are paramount to everything else in woman.

Everything hangs on one's thinking.

Like all independent movies, the first thing you're looking for is a name actor who will justify your financing.