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.

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

I just think the reassurance and the steadiness and the hands-on kindness can make a huge difference.

There's a marketing scheme that tells you that pregnancy and child rearing will make you into a moron, that your kids are only happy when you're buying them stuff. It's hard being a parent, but I laugh a lot and smile a lot and really enjoy it. The ratio of laughter to sadness is higher. There's part of me that wants to broadcast that. Parenting only affirmed what I already cared about, and that's good.

The only word for love is everybody's name.

If you're looking for can-do, earthy-crunchy attitude then you've got to go to Wisconsin.

Sometimes life gives us lessons sent in ridiculous packaging.