I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

Five tender apricots in a blue bowl, a brief and exact promise of things to come.

Sacrifice is a passion that unleashes everything away from us so that it can be drawn into everyone around us.

Humor's always been the problem of my work, hasn't it? When working, I feel satisfied when I surprise myself. And when I surprise myself, I wind up laughing.

Love is an endless mystery, for it has nothing else to explain it.

Righteous marriage is a commandment and an essential step in the process of creating a loving family relationship that can be perpetuated beyond the grave.

Writers should be able to fully deduct from their taxes all writing-related expenses, including alcohol, parking tickets, court judgments, fines for lewd public behavior, Zoloft, and cigarettes.

What we do and think in our own lives, then, becomes of extreme importance as it effects everything we're connected to.

Entertainment alleviates the fear of life, but art vanquishes the fear of death

The problem with paradise is that it's temporary: You don't belong here and the neighbors are nobody you care to know, so it's only blissful for a week or so.

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.