If I had the capabilities of being something other than I am, I would. It's no fun being an artist. You know what it's like, writing, it's torture.

You know the way people begin to look like their dogs? Well, we're beginning to look like each other.

If you want peace, you won't get it with violence.

I'm not a god or the God, but we're all God and we're all potentially divine - and potentially evil. We all have everything within us and the Kingdom of Heaven is nigh and within us, and if you look hard enough you'll see it.

You're born in pain and pain is what we're in most of the time. And I think that the bigger the pain, the more gods we need.

Mostly folk music is people with fruity voices trying to keep alive something old and dead. It's all a bit boring, like ballet: a minority thing kept going by a minority group.

Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans.