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.

You can learn a lot about a woman by getting smashed with her.

It's cold out there, colder than a ticket taker's smile at the Ivar Theatre on a Saturday night.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

Got a head full of lightning, a hat full of rain.

If you get far enough away you'll be on your way back home.

We have a deficit of wonder right now.