Music is forever; music should grow and mature with you, following you right on up until you die.

The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls and tenements halls and whispered in the sounds of silence.

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.

I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

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.

Why am I so soft in the middle when the rest of my life is so hard?