There's the wind And the rain And the mercy of the fallen Who say, "Hey, it's not my place To know what's right" There's the weak And the strong And the many stars that guide us We have some of them inside us

They preach that I should save the world. They pray that I won't do a better job of it.

Therapy was the biggest romance of my life.

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

I started going out with one of my managers and he really grew me up in a lot of ways. He introduced me not just to being a full-time traveler, which I was, but he was also really very interested in history and art and continued to open my eyes up to regional history; less splashy histories. He was interested in historical societies and stuff like that. He introduced me to a way of looking at the way communities form that is the foundation for the book that I've just finished writing that has to do with what I see as effective community-building wherever I've been traveling.

There's always people who came 600 miles to hear the song you didn't play.

Milwaukee one of my favorite cites; I think Milwaukee is #1.