I dream of songs. I dream they fall down through the centuries, from my distant ancestors, and come to me. I dream of lullabies and sea shanties and keening cries and rhythms and stories and backbeats.

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.

I don't do comparisons because I always lose.

Documenting one's life in the midst of living it is a strange pursuit.

Being in Vietnam changed him [Johnny Cash] fundamentally. He was devastated when we went into Iraq.

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.

It is the people who scream the loudest about America and Freedom who see to be the most intolerant for a differing point of view.