Poetry is the hardest thing that there is. It fascinates me, so I want to write more of it.

I don't believe that songwriting has to be profound, but I truly believe that it's a crime for you to go outta your way for it not to be.

Part of it is, I think, just to let people know you've got a record out there and that you're still alive requires more work than it used to, because the traditional radio, bug chains of record stores, all of that, that doesn't exist anymore.

I've been a serial husband, and I've done it badly every time.

Fundamentalism, as practiced by the Taliban, is the enemy of real thought, and religion, too.

Woody Guthrie was what folks who don't believe in anything would call an anomaly.

My therapist says that I choose women that I couldn't possibly succeed in a relationship with because I really want to be alone. Which sounds complicated and convoluted to me, but I don't know. Maybe she's right. There's a part of me that wants that.