There's an opera out on the turnpike, there's a ballet being fought out in the alley.

When I was very, very young, I decided that I was gonna catalogue my times because that's what other people who I admired did. That's what Bob Dylan did, that's what Frank Sinatra did, Hank Williams did, in very different ways.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

From the beginning, I imagined I would have a long work life.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

Most artists I know consider themselves to be phonies, along with the feeling that there's something that you're doing is essential, essential to communicate, and deeply, deeply real.

Two hearts are better than one.