Instinct taught me 20 years ago to pace a song or a concert performance. That translates into pacing a story, pleasing a reading audience.

I have never cared about setting world records, or filling my boat with fish, or, for that matter, even catching fish. I go for the experience of spending six hours in the arms of the ocean, never thinking of a single thing except chasing fish.

I've always been trying to write songs like Lightfoot. A song of mine like 'Come Monday' is a direct result of me trying to write a Gordon Lightfoot song.

Truth is stranger than fishin.

Pickup's washed and you just got paid, with any luck at all you might even get laid.

One of the inescapable encumbrances of leading an interesting life is that there have to be moments when you almost lose it.

Searching is half the fun: life is much more manageable when thought of as a scavenger hunt as opposed to a surprise party.