I hate picking favourite books. I usually tend to stay away from all the 'top record' and 'favourite song' and 'favourite book', and I just think it ….

I knew all this Beatles music. I knew the songs phonetically. It was like my whole experience of that music was out of focus, and somebody put the pe….

It's a real gift to be able to have the works of brilliant, great people to learn from and build from. It gives you so much more to draw on, and then….

I think that I'm always going to think that it's silly to value certain things that no matter how many people find it really valuable, it's always ju….

I don't really make records chronologically..

It's a privilege to work with an artist that you really care for..

Its not like I have all the answers..

I'm both kinds of a person; I have a side of me that's very light and very optimistic and finds everything surreal and hilarious, and then I have a s….

I don't kiss losers and I don't kiss winners, and I don't fight for honor 'cause we all are born sinners.

I remember somebody handed me Siddhartha when I was I think 18, and I started to read it and I just really didn't like it, and I left it and it was j….

When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and no….

I write a tiny fraction of what I used to write. My only job used to be to just write songs, and that was a really nice job to have, but only a tiny ….

Sometimes I make stuff, and even I don't like it. There's something about it that I don't really like, or annoys me. For whatever reason it needs to ….

You are always growing, so maybe the way that you bring the songs forward and translate them is more mature..

It's painful to watch your parents not be in control of things..

I would really hate it if I could call up Kafka or Hemingway or Salinger and any question I could throw at them they would have an answer. That's the….

I just think music is one of those frontiers where people really want the "I" to be you..

I feel like there's just so much of everything that I don't know what people have heard and what they haven't heard. I think with the fact that there….

As you get older as an animal on the planet, you want to get a little more comfortable, you want to get cozier..

Yeah. My singing and my songs were very influenced by all of that. People would come up to me and ask, Is that a Billie Holiday song? I'd say, No, it….

I always have kind of a few books going at the same time..