I do find that most fans are aware of my writing career and have known my real name for many years.

Aloha Earth, this is Elvis calling. You'll find me in the big house now.

When I was writing this new bunch of songs, I was singing a lot lower, because they were more intimate in a way. I had to come up with a way to frame the music that was intimate.

I just love putting on a show. I get a tremendous sense of community out of it.

Novels may have taken care of the emotional business for me, which has allowed music to be more emotional for me.

If they'd said, "Do you want to be John Wesley Harding or Wesley Stace in 25 years' time?" I would have said Wesley Stace, but I wasn't to know.

If somebody had said to me back in 1988 that I'd still be making music in 25 years' time, to start with I would have keeled over with shock because I wouldn't have believed them.

There's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.

The only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.

Look for daily beauty. Let the splendor of life fill your senses.

We need to save the forests. I have a big warehouse we can store them in.

The basic experience of everyone is the experience of human limitation.

Phoenix, n. The classical prototype of the modern 'small hot bird.'

You can forget facts but you cannot forget understanding.

There were incredibly few rock songs making it out to the airwaves until the '80s came along.

The downs are the times when you lose sight of who you are and that happens along the way sometimes...Writer's block when you doubt yourself and you get insecure.

Jesus Christ can help us fix anything that needs fixing in our lives.

The public is mad, frustrated, but what the public wants is progress.

People who refuse to open their minds to new strategies seldom become rich.