I feel like I'm stepping into a place of spiritual contemplation every time I enter a studio; it's always had a certain magic to me that has never wo….

Oh yeah - for sure - hardly a week doesn't go by when I don't hear something wonderful that someone has made in some low-budget situation, primarily ….

I took the process of doing as much myself as I could like a duck to water. I set up my own label and publishing, etc, and it was a fun learning curv….

Gandhi was only minding his own business when he took a walk to get some salt and ended up overthrowing the British Empire. You can't set out to over….

My faith, inasmuch as I have any, is more like a kind of Joseph Campbell thing, and even that frequently finds itself tested to oblivion in siren wat….

Trust the tale, not the teller..

I always liked the magic of poetry but now I'm just starting to see behind the curtain of even the best poets, how they've used, tried and tested cra….

The statistics of mines that need clearance are staggering but the truth is it's a challenge that is absolutely doable..

I'd make a terrible practitioner of any religion in any formal setting..

I didn't really escape that gravity until I moved 300 miles south to go to college at 18, where authorship no longer seemed something liable to induc….

In some ways it's taken me decades to come clean and make honest work - and still to this day, sometimes I find myself wanting to hide behind my work….

Now I'm having to live with sales of around 50,000 per album - but I'm pretty content with my place in the general scheme of things, even if it's mea….

There's nothing like doing something wrong to learn how it might be done better..

If you feel driven and compelled to make your work and to be fiercely original and have something unique to say, in a compelling way, then chances ar….

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I ne….

I don't know to what extent someone can BECOME an artist - you either are or you aren't - and if you are you'll HAVE to make your way to some kind of….

I work in the margins. The margins are where you'll find the nice people. You'll find real friends. You'll find honesty. You'll find integrity. Y….

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the fo….

Now that I'm staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I'm less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business as….

I've been getting pretty focused about that recently, and even considered doing a masters degree to polish up the craft. I've been pretty lucky in th….