Creative work is more accurately a machine that digs down and finds stuff, emotional stuff that will someday be raw material that can be used to produce more stuff, stuff like itself - clay to be available for future use.

Facts are simple and facts are straight. Facts are lazy and facts are late. Facts all come with points of view. Facts don't do what I want them to. Facts just twist the truth around. Facts are living turned inside out.

I think that if they want people to listen to ten or twelve songs, they have to give the listener a reason to listen to ten or twelve songs or to buy ten or twelve and listen to the whole thing instead of just pulling one or two for their iPod or their computer.

Singing is a trick to get people to listen to music for longer than they would ordinarily.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

All you needed was a couple of instruments and a few chords and you could be on an indie label.

I’m not all about money, but, like most musicians, I am about survival.