You have to keep busy. After all, no dog's ever pissed on a moving car.

Well I got a bad liver and broken heart, yeah,I drunk me a river since you tore me apart

Everything is explained now. We live in an age when you say casually to somebody 'What's the story on that?' and they can run to the computer and tell you within five seconds. That's fine, but sometimes I’d just as soon continue wondering. We have a deficit of wonder right now.

We are buried beneath the weight of information, which is being confused with knowledge; quantity is being confused with abundance and wealth with happiness.

When I was younger, I wanted to be older. Now I am older, I am not quite so sure.

For a songwriter, you don't really go to songwriting school; you learn by listening to tunes. And you try to understand them and take them apart and see what they're made of, and wonder if you can make one, too.

There's a beauty of show business. It's the only business you can have a career in when you're dead.