If somebody had said to me back in 1988 that I'd still be making music in 25 years' time, to start with I would have keeled over with shock because I wouldn't have believed them.
John Wesley HardingThe only problem with conjuring people is they insist on getting paid, unlike a writer who would do a reading for nothing.
John Wesley HardingA friend of mine pointed out to me, "Why do you separate your writing and your music?" I got (writers) Rick Moody and Jonathan Ames to do the first one, and it just kind of gathered steam; then NPR picked it up. It is a nice way for me to marry both sides of my career, a move that's probably culminated in me dropping the name John Wesley Harding.
John Wesley HardingThere's nothing I like more than a writer who can sing, or a musician who has a book out.
John Wesley Harding