It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs. When I first heard Elvis' voice, I knew that I wasn't going to work for anybody ... hearing him for the first time was like busting out of jail. This land is your land and this land is my land, sure, but the world is run by those that never listen to music anyway. People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right, now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself, you decide for yourself.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

I'm a good friend of Jonah Lehrer's. You should go on a date with him.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

She had bullets in her eyes and they fired.