Whenever I see your smiling face, I have to smile myself, because I love you, yes I do.

I think it surprises a lot of people that I'm still around, you know, still - that I'm not pushing up daisies, as they say.

Just nine lucky soldiers had come through the night, half of them wounded and barely alive. Just nine out of twenty was headed for home, with eleven stories to tell.

To be a musician, especially a singer-songwriter - well, you don't do that if you have a thriving social life. You do it because there's an element of alienation in your life.

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

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.

All it really needed was the proper point of view. No one's gonna bring me down.