I played the cello from when I was ten, and then I bought a guitar from the father of some friends of mine and played that for a while. And then when I was fourteen or so, I bought a guitar - a real nice one - in Durham, North Carolina, that I worked with up until I was about twenty-five.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.

It's hard to find a way forward. When you're 18 it happens in huge chunks every day, but after 20 years, growth is much more costly.

A song is what you fall in love with first, but then I think a band's ideals and a band's sense of fashion and a sense of how they treat people is what you fall in love with afterwards.

I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.

I gathered up my sorrows and I sold them all for gold. And I gathered up the gold, and I threw it all away.

Einstein said that he never could understand it all, the planets spinning in space, the smile upon your face.