I can't say I was consciously thinking of the big changes in the music business when I was writing the lyrics, but change, uncertainty, flux, imperma….

Faith is always about the Future..

Over the next four days, I want you to write about your deepest emotions and thoughts about the most upsetting experience in your life. Really let go….

Most of the songs I write just very directly from my life. I don't have a big imagination. Whenever I tried to write from fantasy, it comes out sound….

I can’t remember how many times I advised students to stop writing the sunny hours and write from where it hurts: No one wants to read polite. It put….

I've gone more than 40 years without having to use an alarm clock or go to an office. At this point, I don't think I'd be capable of not writing. I d….

How did writing come to me? Like bird’s down on my windowpane, in winter. Just then there rose in the heart a struggle of firebrands, which has, stil….

I'm in no rush to become extremely famous..

I'm not too fond of the hard work and the constant battle with self-doubt that goes on when I write, but I figure that's part of the territory..

Words are where most change begins..

Whenever I get lost in a novel I just throw a poem in. What it does is flare up, and it's so illuminated that I'm able to see where to go. I write be….

There's nobody playing better than J.R. Sweezy.

I have seen the future! Go back!.

I try to find clues in the documented record - from the subject's own testimony, from the testimony of other people. When you're writing a biography, ….

I never, ever would or did rob anyone in my life..

Anonymity lets me concentrate exclusively on writing..

I've been writing books without ego for a very long time. I feel like it will get what it deserves. Or won't get what it doesn't deserve..

Sometimes I think it is ... frustration with life as it is lived day to day that compels me to write such long letters to people who seldom reply in ….

Let's do what we love and do a lot of it..

I don't live to eat, I eat to live..

Most surprising is probably that I thought I had experienced most of the low points life has to offer... but you reach new lows when you are hungover….