I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

I don't need to read the news. I see it on the faces of everyone I meet.

I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

My job as a songwriter is to write good songs.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

I'm reaching out my hand. I hope you are too. I just want to be in the dark with you.

Your past is just a story. And once you realise this, it has no power over you.

This life is full of signs, many of which find their way to you exactly when you need them most.

Each of us sees things not as they are but as we are.

I fell in love with Boston, so hopefully, I'll be here for a long time.

We live, we die. Somewhere along the way, if we're lucky, we may find someone to help lighten the load.

Power is neither good nor evil.

The only real meaning in life can be found in a good man. And maybe Paris. Preferably the two together.

Television has usurped everybody from film. And so have commercials, by the way.

I think yes is the most beautiful and necessary word in the English language.

I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight.