Unlike some of my peers, I haven't really hit a writer's block. When I hit a block I just paint, which is an old crop rotation trick.

Happiness is the best facelift.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well.

All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.

I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it.

Some turn to Jesus and some turn to heroin.