Horses pretty much broke as a record in England.

There are so many great 19th-century photographers, and it's really my favorite period, but the amateurs did such beautiful work.

I gave you a wrist watch, baby, and you wouldn't even give me the time of day.

I was real religious when I was young. I wanted to be a missionary.

More than anything that's been the thread through my life - the desire to write, the impulse to write. I mean, it's taken me other places, but it was the impulse to write that led me to singing.

When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this," I said. "I don't know what to say." "Say anything," he said. "You can't make a mistake when you improvise." "What if I mess it up? What if I screw up the rhythm?" "You can't," he said. "It's like drumming. If you miss a beat, you create another." In this simple exchange, Sam taught me the secret of improvisation, one that I have accessed my whole life.

My father was always talking about God, and I idolized my father, so I'd spend hours trying to have mental telepathy with God.