When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

Time, the spaces of light and dark, had long since lost orderliness.

Unless I had the spirit of prayer I could do nothing.

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

My faith is a wounded faith, but it's not without faith. My life is not without faith.

I do think Donald Trump would be a catastrophic turn in American history.

I was not that pretty a girl and I was never pursued as a teenager or young woman, so I was used to having no shame and trying to get people to love me.

I never lacked respect to the fans and I think every player should be allowed to stay or leave a club. You are not obligated to remain at a club, if you wish to leave then the player has that right.

The Obama campaign seems dangerously close to becoming a cult of personality.

However, there's three reasons for doing things in this particular world. One is love, one is prestige and the other's money. If you get all three together, that's fine.

I have a big problem with piped music. I like either silence or to listen to it properly.