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.

There are two sorts of people in the world: Those who listen and those who are thinking about what they are going to say next.

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

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 don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

There is a moment, a chip in time, when leaving home is the lesser crime.

I always get very calm with baseball.