I think the reason kids get into drugs and smoking is they don't have anything to do.

The thing I do, really, is a communication with audiences more than any achievement through records.

I think you can refine what you do, and become more consistent. And you write better songs that have a better shape and a better feeling. You evolve into and out of things, and go through stages, but, ultimately, you do improve.

Every day I'll wear your memory like a favorite shirt upon my back

If you're up on a stage, naked and solo and singing songs to people, there's not much place to hide, so you may as well confess what you want to confess and say what you want to say, whatever that is. Some songs just turn out as being more about me, and some are more through the eyes of other people, or third-person descriptions of people.

To see both sides of a quarrel, is to judge without hate or alarm

I'm glad there are a lot of guitar players pursuing technique as diligently as they possibly can, because it leaves this whole other area open to people like me.