You can't really praise somebody's work and then criticize the process.

The thing about Alzheimer's is that it's... it's sort of like all these little, small deaths along the way, before they actually physically die.

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

Have compassion for everyone you meet, even if they don’t want it.

Sometimes I feel like I just open myself up like I'm a vehicle for something coming through me. It's like a meditative state I have to be in.

Blaze Foley was a genius and a beautiful loser.

The old jazz singers or old blues singers, you always just saw them kind of sitting down and singing. They weren't worried as much about their voice sounding perfect. They would make the song kind of fit their voice.