I write the songs, go in and record them, then I listen to everything and decide how it all fits together.

Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.

I guess you could write a good song if your heart hadn't been broken, but I don't know of anyone whose heart hasn't been broken.

I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.

I would worry if I wasn't coming up with ideas, if I wasn't inspired.

You can't be afraid to deal with your demons. You've got to go there to be able to write.

I started writing little short stories and poems as soon as I learned to read and write. I think I was six years old. And then when I got to be eleven, twelve, and into my teens, I was just listening to records all the time, and I got a guitar. I started to take guitar lessons when I was twelve.