Don't confront me with my failures, I had not forgotten them.

The idea that I wrote something that stood for the way I feel about things, and that it lasts, that's probably my favorite thing that I've done.

Somewhere between the time you arrive and the time you go may lie a reason you were alive, but you'll never know.

I'm sensitive, you know, about some things, and as some of my partners could attest to, incredibly insensitive.

People look around you, the signs are everywhere. You've left it for somebody other than you to be the one who to care.

That folk music led to learning to play, and making things up led to what turns out to be the most lucrative part of the music business - writing, because you get paid every time that song gets played.

But when you know that you've got a real friend somewhere, suddenly all the others are so much easier to bear.