You don't want to believe everything you hear.

You know, once you've had that guitar up so loud on the stage, where you can lean back and volume will stop you from falling backward, that's a hard drug to kick.

I actually learned the guitar with the help of a Pete Seeger instructional record when I was 13 or 14.

I find it incredibly difficult to write anything that's really happy.

It's not true that you fall in love only once in your life. But it is true that you only fall in love a certain way, with a certain absoluteness, once.

The music tends to be an expression of one's darker moments.

It's a very tempting thing to try and relive your glory days when you get a little older and you worry that people have forgotten all about you.