In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.

You have to work out where your place is. And who you are. But we're all spirit. That's all we are, we're just walking dressed up in a suit of skin, and we're going to leave that behind.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

The songs are my lexicon. I believe the songs.

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.

God knows there's a heaven.

Here's the thing with me and the religious thing. This is the flat-out truth: I find the religiosity and philosophy in the music. I don't find it anywhere else.