Music is the marriage of the feelings of the living to the wisdom of the dead.

I don't think I'm even a musician. I don't play a lot of instruments, not really a soloist or anything.

I hate my voice. I've never been comfortable singing.

I don't think music is my job - I don't think about it that way, because I don't really get paid. There's no paycheck at the end; it's more of a 'whatever is left over' kind of situation.

I don't think I'm a particularly somber human being.

I don't really write for an album. I just write songs whenever I feel like it, whenever they come to me. It's all a complete accident.

A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.