Sometimes it will be for more money than I've ever been offered before. I mean, am I an idiot again for not doing that?

Then little writings and recordings that thankfully continue to come up. I'm in this kind of wonderful, kind of awkward, off-putting, and strange position where there's nothing I want to do more than continue to make music, but the ways that I do things are not in tune with how I can do them commercially.

People are looking for fame or a focus, and I can't provide that.

Frank Sinatra's never been handsome, but he's one of my favorite singers. Who needs looks when you have a voice and power?

There's very little admirable about being a pirate. There's very little functional about a pirate. There's very little real about a pirate.

It's nice to be able to backtrack and not be embarrassed by the music you used to listen to.

I don't like the idea of being surrounded by hidden things; people you can't see in buildings and cars.