Trying to cope with the balance between home life and road life has been a theme in my music since early Red House Painters records.

I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.

When I get compared to artists like Jose Gonzalez or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, "I've been doing this since they were in third grade."

We're all human and life is complicated.

I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.

I make music to process - because I have to, not for praise or accolades or reactions.

The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing.

I feel like when the songwriting slows, I'd love to help others with their records. If it's something I really believe in, it's worth the effort.

Anyone who has toured as long as I have, or who has traveled as extensively, and says that they've never cheated is lying.

I don't make demos. I don't have the interest or the energy or the time.

When you get older, you're bothered, or inspired, by other things in life than a girl breaking up with you. Things get heavier as you get older.

Be real and be unashamed, even of your faults. I do truly know what my husband is made of and vice versa.

Like any / unloved thing, I don’t know if I’m real /when I’m not being touched.

I had brought from Paris the national prejudice against Italian music

New Yorkers are so impersonal if it wasn't for muggings there wouldn't be any contact at all!

My mom says: 'Why aren't you a doctor?' and I'm like, 'I am a doctor!' and she's all, 'No, I mean a real doctor.' She reads my books, but she says they give her a headache.

I simply adore the exhaustion that comes with training hard.

Sometimes, life threw up problems that even the wisest, most trusted mentor couldn't solve for you. It was part of the pain of growing up. And having to stand by and watch was part of being a mentor.

Ahimsa means infinite love, which again means infinite capacity for suffering.

I was born in revolution.

Writers who used to show off their erudition no longer sing in the bare ruined choir of the media.