Applause, applause, life is our cause.

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.

Keep a good heart. That's the most important thing in life. It's not how much money you make or what you can acquire. The art of it is to keep a good heart.

Musically, I don't think I'd ever dry up. I trust my musical invention.

Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.

Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical fountain inside was excited by. Once I got some interesting chords to play with, my writing began to come.

Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980.