I think the Internet has real potential for building community. People all around the world talking to each other can't be a bad thing.

It's impossible for me to think of music as a contest. All of the awards ceremonies, I mean I'm sure they're fun for people, but they have no meaning to me.

If the wind and rain could play guitar, they would sound a lot like Doc Watson

I don't think people hear my songs and think, "Well this is a way to make a bunch of money."

Teamwork is not a matter of persuading yourself and your colleagues to set aside personal ambitions for the greater good. It's a matter of recognizing that your personal ambitions and the ambitions of the team are one and the same. That's the incentive.

Life is a thump ripe melon, so sweet and such a mess.

I don't think that good politics ever excuse a bad song.