Sinclair Lewis was asked one time to give a talk to class of students about writing. When he got there he asked the class, Do you people want to be writers?and they all said yes. Then Lewis said, Why the hell aren't you at home writing?

My best album is called In Search Of A Song. That was my best shot right there. My finest hour, as they say. I could listen to the whole thing all the way through. There's nothing really crammed into it.

I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books.

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.

Old dogs care about you, even when you make mistakes.

Is this really Butte, Montana, or just existential blues?

Young kids are doing the same thing I did, but they're doing it differently. They don't do brain surgery the way they used to do it either.