That's where the songs come from: that's what I'd most want people to understand. What sounds good or looks good, that's nothing. The only worthwhile thing in art is seeing someone else's heart.

If you wrap yourself in daffodils I will wrap myself in pain...

There is nothing more important you can ever do for this world than to wake up and be a part of it.

Got no place to go, but there's a girl waitin' for me down in Mexico. She got a bottle of tequila, a bottle of gin, and if I bring a little music, I could fit right in.

If you've never stared off into the distance, then your life is a shame.

Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.

A long December and there's reason to believe, maybe this year will be better than the last.

I've been playing music most of my life.

I'm really good in pain. I snapped my leg in half on stage and played a whole show. But I can't sit there with someone that loves me.

It's always music first, or melody and words together, but never words first.

For me, songwriting is something like breathing: I just do it. But that doesn't mean you're fantastic.

In Jazz, like in America, the group works together toward a common cause with lots of room left for each individual to shine.

I don't live to work. I work to live. Before I die I know I lived.

Often she dreamt she had two wings, and one was frightened, and one was happy.

If I spend every moment, for the rest of my days, thanking God for all his goodness to us, that would still not be enough.

To mislead a rival, deception is permissable; one may use all means against his enemies.

In the land of the skunk the man with half a nose is king!

Depose him,’ said Will Scott, astonished. ‘The Grand Master’s holy office terminates with his life.’ ‘And can nobody think of an answer to that?’ said Will Scott.

I'm constantly falling deeper in love with my wife.

Indeed, without emotion it seems unlikely we can even have morality.

Alas, how love can trifle with itself!