Now that I believe in God, I have an extra layer of saying I'll write about what I write about and assume that I'm being offered the opportunity to illuminate something important. But when you think you are too important, you become some sort of fascist.

I fear that to fall in love with you is to fall from a great and gruesome height.

A lot of men were also becoming more attuned and less afraid of women [in the nineties ].

The funny thing is musicians often love to go to see visual art because you've got all these pictures to turn into metaphors.

When we learn about ourselves, we can evolve.

In the laughing times we know that we are lucky, and in the quiet times we know that we are blessed. And we will not be alone.

I remember doing "As Cool As I Am" and Steve Miller, the producer, saying "I really hear a drum loop here. I want to play it for you." When I wrote it, I thought, "This isn't going to sound very folky. I don't think it's going to go with mandolins and banjos." Then he played the loop for me and it sounded right.