Yeah, I was in the phase for the last ten years or so where every record I made I said OK, that's the last one, I don't want to record anymore, I don't want to do this any more, I don't want to have a public life.

Being in the studio is like painting, you know, you can really take your time, and try different things, and kind of go deep into it.

If you're playing in a tradition and you have no reference point to it, no understanding and have not studied it, I can't respect that.

I choose not to give energy to the emotions of revenge, hatred or the desire to subjugate.

Loss is the great unifier, the terrible club to which we all eventually belong.

Once your kids get older and get out of the house, it's not like it stops. They're on the phone with me every day; I'm intimately involved in their problems.

I have a real worker-bee mentality. Just show up, just do it. Even if you feel like s--t and you think you're terrible and you'll never get better and it will never go anywhere, just show up and do it. And, eventually, something happens.