One of the things that upset me was some of the criticism leveled at Simon and Garfunkel. I always took exception to it, but actually I agree with a lot of it.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

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.

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

Artie is a singer, and I'm a writer and player and a singer. We didn't work together on a creative level and prepare the songs. I did that.

Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been