We've got blue light, we've got all this light flooding our bedrooms and things blinking, and you can't get a decent night's sleep.

Mainly, when I ran into Emmylou Harris, that was it, you know? We could finish each other's sentences musically, and personally, too. We have a very shared, similar sensibility. And that was a friendship that really opened up a tremendous number of musical doors for me.

If you don't have story to tell the public at large - you have to be able to sort of go listen.

The only reason to be with somebody is that they make you a better person and you make them a better person.

Story is what's most important.

I love sex as much as I love music, and I think it's as hard to do.

Even though I know how very far apart we are, it helps to think we might be wishing underneath the same bright star.