I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curve two decades ago.

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work and deny the more biographical aspects.

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induce vengeful punishment.

I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never worn off with familiarity.

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable.

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better.

Trust the tale, not the teller.

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren waters.

Because our power is motivating, and gives momentum and ownership of changes to those who dream of failure.

Peace is the way, not the destination.

A mask does not hide who you are, it shows exactly what you want others to see.

Many receive advice only the wise profit by it.

In love matters; keep your pen from paper.

If you're a Christian and you're running for president and you want to make this into a theocracy, I'm not going to support you.

I think when you have doubts, you just say no.

I believe the only things that really matter in investing are the bubbles and the busts

We should know mankind better if we were not so anxious to resemble one another.

First wonder goes deepest; wonder after that fits in the impression made by the first.