I think music in itself is healing. It's an explosive expression of humanity.

We all have a face that we hide away forever, and we take them out and show ourselves when everyone has gone.

Someday we'll all be gone, but lullabies go on and on / They never die, that's how you and I will be

In a way, we are magicians. We are alchemists, sorcerers and wizards. We are a very strange bunch. But there is great fun in being a wizard.

I don't care what consequence it brings, I have been a fool for lesser things.

I started just concentrating on songwriting when I was abut 20; I'd been in rock bands six or seven years, kinda got that out of my system, I said, "ok, you ain't gonna be a rock star, you don't look like a rock star, it probably ain't gonna happen. So what you should do is write songs and maybe other people will do your songs."

I've reached the age where competence is a turn-on.