Time will take your money, but money won't buy time..

I wanted to perform, I wanted to write songs, and I wanted to get lots of chicks..

There's a lot more information at hand and sometimes there's information overload and we become desensitized to it, so things start to mean less..

I was a functional addict..

In the old days gigging was everything. The whole of life was about gigs. Everything was about waiting for the gig and then doing the gig and going n….

He's halfway sick and halfway stoned. He'd sure like to kick, but he's too far gone. So they wind him down with methadone..

I don't know much about God. But if everything does originate with God, then certainly songs do as well..

I think good music makes you feel free, and if people feel free when they come to a show or listen to my music, that would mean the world to me..

I have a studio in a barn at home - we rehearse there, we film there and we record there. It's fun to hang out with my guys and see what comes out ne….

I had a very moral upbringing, and spiritual in a sort of not very specific way..

If the gig's going really well, I'm incredibly happy on stage and really feel good about my life and things..

One of my earliest memories was me singing 'Oh, What A Beautiful Mornin' at the top of my voice when I was seven. I got totally carried away. My gran….

There ain't no doubt in my mind that love is the finest thing around.

I know there are people who don't like their audience or like the experience of being recognized or celebrated, but my audience has been very good - ….

I have a love-hate relationship with the Grammys because I don't see the music world as a competitive sport..

I think that American music, for me, it's a synthesis of a lot of different things. But for me growing up in North Carolina, the stuff that I was lis….

When I cleaned up some 17 odd years ago, I felt terrible for about six months. The only thing that gave me any real relief was strenuous physical act….

It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before..

['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably c….

I'm very unstable; there's no stability in a musician's life at all. You live on a bus or on the road hand to mouth and you don't know where your mon….

It's easier to make an album, harder to figure out how to get people to notice it..