I think grief is a huge subject; it's one of the things that everybody is going to confront in one way or another. There's been a lot of books written about how Americans have an odd way of trying to defer grief or minimize the need to grieve. People used to have a lot more ritual grief in their lives. For the most part, we think of it as a strictly temporal process: you grieve for a time and then you're over [it], but it's also a spatial process. It travels across a map.

There are real teachers out there; I don't pretend to have their mantle.

Back in the 90s, if you did mail order in music, you could make a good living doing it if you could hustle.

Every place on earth has a frequency. It's not good or bad, it's just the way it is, and if you can attune yourself to that frequency, then you can find comfort in that.

Life is hard, you're tired, and there's disease. The strategy that works for children is to be delighted by the things that delight you.

People want you to play the songs they know. I try not to reflect too much, and I don't really like to focus too much on myself.

I think I read too much Arthur Conan Doyle when I was young, and got this idea that a gentleman should know a lot about one thing and plenty about most everything else.