I tend to play covers when I'm gearing up for creating new song. Singing other people's songs is a way that I get inspired.

Songwriting never feels like it's me doing anything consciously except for becoming aware somehow that it's time to let something out, or let something in, depending on how you look at it.

The beauty of inspiration for me is that you can't predict when it's coming. I like that it just pops up out of nowhere. You just have to be open to its arrival.

I've never thought to notate my songs...I tend to just have to remember them.

Behind every successful innovation, was a presentation in a closed room

I live life with a daring curiosity.

This our worldly life is an activity of Nirvana itself

Never feel like you need to visit him, ever?" "I see him every morning in the mirror. I think of him as the ghost version of me. And who needs to visit your own ghost?

The best way to keep a secret is to forget about it.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

I think the best person in her [Hillary Clinton's] campaign is mainstream media.

Every man bears the whole stamp of the human condition.

Have you ever felt that there was something going on in life that not everyone was aware of?

Jesse Helms wants me to move to the right, Lowell Weiker wants me to move to the left, and Teddy Kennedy wants me to move back to California.