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

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

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

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.

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.

Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself.

Luckily, I don't think that I'm too famous. I can still live my life pretty comfortably. Fame has never really ever appealed to me. I think it's easy to see that it's not a great thing to have.

Men rarely see their own actions as unjustified.

Step one in overcoming fears is to make a fear list. Make a list of all the things that you are afraid of. Start out with the small fears and conquer them.

Even the Founding Fathers of the U.S., nowadays considered the model of a democracy, were strictly opposed to it. Without a single exception, they thought of democracy as nothing but mob-rule.

Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.

A boy's will is the wind's will.

We Love Water. We Thank Water. We Respect Water. We Are All Water. We Are All One.

Without faith you can't see a miracle; you just see unexplained events.

Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows.