Somewhere in a burst of glory / Sound becomes a song.

I see a correlation between short stories and songs, because of their length and for what they're meant to evoke. Combine certain words with melodies and it all becomes very moving.

I get the news I need on the weather report And I have nothing to do today but smile

There are lots of really good guitarists, but they play with the same pedals that everybody else does. Everybody buys the same pedals, so the sounds tend to be the same. I am looking for different ways of doing that without having to spend days and weeks and months fooling around with pedals, which I don't enjoy.

There's something about the sound of a train that's very romantic and nostalgic and hopeful.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

I think my hight had the most significant single effect on my existence, aside from my brain. In fact, it's part of an inferior-superior syndrome. I think I have an inferior brain and an inferior stature, if you really want to get brutal about it.