I'm an intuitive musician. I have no real technical skills. I can only play six chords on the guitar.

The truth is, no matter how modest Steven [Sebring] is, he was obsessed with the outcome of the film [Dream of Life]. Every single frame was important to him.

I'm okay with roaming around the world in my bunk for days on end. Maybe every third day I'll get a shower or stumble out at dawn and realize I'm in a field in Poland. I like that kind of life.

Writing is not some quiet, closet act.

Put down your cell phones, put everything away, and feel your blood pulsing in you, feel your creative impulse, feel your own spirit, your heart, your mind. Feel the joy of being alive and free.

One thing I like about getting older is things, your spectrum widens, your capacity for compassion widens.

Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.