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."

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

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.

I wanted to give my first instincts a chance without shooting them down immediately, which I sometimes do.

Foul!" yelled Jamie, who seemed extremely happy not to be the one facing a blade. "Distracting technique! Put your shirt back on right now.

Making great strides without a well-defined purpose will not bring positive results.

I see a lot of women of every age trying to be something else. I see them trying to imitate behaviors that they think belong to successful people.

I'll give up my bad habits as soon as equally satisfying good habits become available.

Ordinary men are given the authority of the priesthood. Worthiness and willingness - not experience, expertise, or education - are the qualifications for priesthood ordination.

Pantagruel was telling me that he believed the queen had given the symbolic word used among her subjects to denote sovereign good cheer, when she said to her tabachins, A panacea.

Sometimes it's other people's voices you have to shut out.

When my daughter was born she had jaundice, she was small, round and yellow. we called her Melony.

Each city has its own culinary landscape.

I like crazy shoes or unusual cowboy boots and I collect big belt buckles.