The SECRET to Love is in OPENING up your Heart

Knowing when to quit is probably a very important thing, but I just am not ready.

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

A concert is always like a feast day to me.

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was listening to, the things that I was hearing, it was all about Black music, about soul music.

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.

Television news is now entertainment, and the stories are being written by the people that have a special interest in them.