Some songs, some nights won't do anything for you, but people enjoy them and that's the job. The magic is finding those places to stand in the song and gain perspective.

The easiest thing to feel is sadness.

Our lives feel like these epochs, but really we are dust in the wind.

But in any situation with long love, I don’t think it ever goes away fully. You just sort of learn where to keep it.

I'm up in the woods, I'm down on my mind. I'm building a still, to slow down the time.

I don't know why you'd spend any of your time trying to remake something that you don't actually like.

There's that whole thing that happens in relationships - you can love someone but, as soon as they stop loving you so unconditionally that they stop being themselves, it can be so dangerous.

At once i knew i was not magnificent.

Even the indie rock world - which is supposed to be about truth and independence from corporate mindfulness or something - is totally subject to the paraphernalia of celebrity.

I began realizing that it wasn't important for me to concern myself with the perception of truth.

I'm not trying to say something super complicated. I allow myself to say certain things that mean a lot to me.

Nobody knows this crime territory better than Mark Langan. His authentic experience proves that he is an expert in telling a story worth listening to. --Alex Kava, NY Times Bestselling Crime Novelist

The innovation indicators vary depending on who is doing the measuring, and how they are measuring. It’s contextual.

What is being said in media in other parts of the world is very different from what we've been told in this country throughout these years between September 11 and today.

Least he's committed," I offered. "Or needs to be.

I'm very proud of my children. And they've done a wonderful job, and they've been wonderful, wonderful kids.

She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.

If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.

A man can't turn tail and run just because a little personal risk is involved. What did Shakespeare say? "Cowards die a thousand deaths, the brave man... only 500"?

I'm capable of looking on the bright side. I just don't do it very often.

Let us never forget the greatest untapped market for American enterprise is right here in America, in the inner cities, in the rural areas.