I love baseball. I'll probably end up one of those old farts who go to spring training in Florida every year and drive from game to game all day.

Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that.

America's criminal justice system isn't known for rehabilitation. I'm not sure that, as a society, we are even interested in that concept anymore.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

I have a low tolerance for mediocrity in music and life. I'm into pain and joy and the in-between doesn't interest me.

Actually, in its purest form, Islam is incredibly tolerant. That makes what's going on in the world really bizarre.

All we do as songwriters is rewrite the songs that have impressed us till we find our own voice. It's part of learning the craft.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

I don't really think in terms of obstacles. My biggest obstacle is always myself.

To me, religion is an agreement between a group of people about what God is. Spirituality is a one-on-one relationship.

Indeed, the future is signalled in the past, but time has to pass to see it. Art is the witness.BLOG post-Perpetual Beginning-November 14 2011

Society was nothing but a long, dull dinner party conversation in which one was forced to speak to one's partner on both the left and the right.

To Buddha, the second figure in the painting, life on earth was bitter, filled with attachments and desires that led to suffering.

The Mandelbrot set is the most complex mathematical object known to mankind.

Heaven suits the back to the burden.

Look for solutions, not problems.

The existence of trousers proves that God meant us to be bipeds.

The fairest order in the world is a heap of random sweepings.

The BALLPOINT PENGUINS, black and white, Do little else but write and write. Although they've nothing much to say, They write and write it anyway.

So much technology, so little talent.