Done so many evil things in the name of love, it's a crying shame. I never did see no fire that could put out a flame.

Having these colossal accolades and titles, they get in the way.

I'm not a folk-singer. I just sing a certain place.

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.

As long as you give my friend Jonah Lehrer a free pizza, I'll write a song about your restaurant.

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke