Personally, being somewhat envious of Richard's (Thompson) songwriting and guitar playing, it's somewhat satisfying he's not yet achieved household-name status. It serves him right for being so good.

It's not music you would use to get a girl into bed. If anything, you're going to frighten her off.

Life tends to be an accumulation of a lot of mundane decisions, which often gets ignored.

The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky - they all turn out in one day.

I can't tell one from the other:I find you or you find me?There was a time before we were born If someone asks, this is where I'll be.

People hear about stuff from their friends or a magazine or a newspaper.

There was an op-ed piece in The New York Times by an evolutionary biologist or somebody - which was a curious place for the opinion to come from - and he said that there's no such thing as a completely free, uncensored medium, that people censor themselves all the time, in deference to hurting other people's feelings, or offending other groups, or in their own, not to provoke a fight. And you do self-censor certain things, and it's not necessarily a bad thing. That's just the way human social interaction works.