Not my biggest fear, but my biggest problem onstage is over-emphasizing what I do. I'm pushing too hard. You need to engage an audience. They need to be able to involve their own imaginations as well. They don't need everything thrust down their throat, and I have a tendency to do that. I always have had a tendency to do that.

Moving to the country is a very bold thing to do. You can have vague romantic notions about doing that, but in actuality, it can be a terrifying thing.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

You're one microscopic cog in his catastrophic plan.

The way I go about writing records is that I make a calendar date to start the new record, so I have nothing. I don't have a bunch of notes that I bring into the office, I start with nothing at all.