My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.

The only thing worse than growing up is never quite learning how

I hope people leave my show thinking they've had a worthwhile couple of hours. The worst thing you want is for people to think they've wasted their time or didn't get their money's worth.

I love playing and I like traveling. I really do like playing in Canada, its not to diminish anywhere else because touring internationally can be cool.

We still need to have one beautiful lady standing there.

I might be a teacher or something like that. I really like young people. I always think about the teachers I had that did a good job. I would maybe have the same aspirations.

That memory of making the record is a huge part of the record itself.

Great art is a regional thing. I'm not saying my art is great. I recognize what I think is great about music is often on a regional level.

I like New Orleans music, I like Memphis music and I like the way that the sound like those places. I like how there are stars and there are people in those cities that are revered in the community.

When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it.

I've been really supported by my family and my wife. She really understands what I do, but it doesn't get any easier when you get away all the time and so I'm trying to find the balance.

Your life is yours and yours alone. Rise up and live it.

A condom is a rubber thing shaped like a wiener that hums.

The point of literary criticism in anthropology is not to replace research, but to find out how it is that we are persuasive.

Faith is the realization that God's pleasure in you will never be based upon your performance for him.

I have nothing to explain. As for being misunderstood, I have grown accustomed to that.

If everything that ever lived is dead, and everything alive is gonna die...where does the sacred part come in?

Remember one thing - that Sweden is performing better than the rest of Europe.

Some literary types subscribe to the notion that being a writer like Salinger entitles a person to remain free of the standards that might apply to mere mortals.

To succeed in the other trades, capacity must be shown; in the law, concealment of it will do.

No life is great that does not point to Christ.