I relate to the audiences and they know me. It's pretty real.

Folk-rock hasn't changed much over the decades since the Byrds started it.

You don't see a lot of difference between the Gin Blossoms and the Byrds.

There was just no way I could leave this little Martin guitar in my apartment overnight or even in the afternoon, and expect to find it there when I got back.

I wouldn't be interested in just doing a show that's mapped out and choreographed with a set list. That would've been boring so long ago it just wouldn't be any fun.

I've had an advantage; I've had a sort of open public acceptance in New York that doesn't happen to just anyone trying to make the transition you were talking about.

It's often said that life is strange. But compared to what?

I'm not trying to be the new anybody.

I just play, and I'm always trying to write songs.

And the music, as far as a type of music, it's still pretty viable.

But I'm able to just keep going, and that's the challenge. It's the next song. And then just enjoying the shows and people who come out to the shows. It's pretty organic, really.

God has no tolerance for ignorance therefore we should not have tolerance for ignorance also.

If you whoop and holler all the time, the players just get used to it.

I really like the structure of my body. It moves well, it looks good, it photographs well, it understands gesture and nuance.

Flying is such a joy. You just want to hoot.

Even eternally free people are enslaved by the process of living.

I have trouble imagining what I could do that's beyond the practicality of what I can do.

It is not the mountain we conquer, but ourselves.

Here's one of the great challenges of life. Being happy with what you have while in pursuit of what you want.

Accelerometrics is a cool new discipline. Newton and Galileo would love it.

Seeing things a human shouldn't have to see makes us human.