“I never think of stories as made things; I think of them as found things. As if you pull them out of the ground, and you just pick them up.”

“Song-writing's just kinda like catching fish--you sit there and pull them out as they go by--though I think Bob Dylan's up stream from me somewhere.”

“I used to think I'd be just like them when I grew up, but I am not. And the thing is, somewhere along the way, I stopped wanting to be like them, anyway.”

“The older I get, the more I see there are these crevices in life where things fall in and you just can't reach them to pull them back out. So you can sit next to them and weep or you can get up and move forward. You have to stop worrying about who's not here and start worrying about who is.”

“The strangest thing about strange things is that they're only strange when you hear about them or think about them later, but never when you're living them.”

“But the heaviest things, I think, are the secrets. They can drown you if you let them.”