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.

Once you get that two-way energy thing going, everyone benefits hugely.

The Beatles were a phenomenon, but they were also ordinary blokes like anyone else. I was lucky enough to see that side.

It's the nature of human consciousness to look for trouble constantly, and we find it. We find it.

Music reminds us that the universe loves us

I find it a lot healthier for me to be someplace where I can go outside in my bare feet.

Songwriting is too mysterious and uncontrolled a process for me to direct it towards any one thing.