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.

There'll come a writing phase where you have to defend the time, unplug the phone and put in the hours to get it done.

To me, very much of what is artistic is people's very creative and inventive ways out of impossible situations.

Songs are like myths. Myths are useful because they allow you to cast yourself and your life and your own experience. And for some people, 'Fire and Rain' speaks to them in that way.

All invisible from where we stand the connections come to pass, and though too strong to comprehend they affect us not the less.

Somehow it helps just to take something that's internal and externalize it, to see it in front of you.

Music is my living. I enjoy selling my music.