"You're twiddling and you find the tuning. Now the left hand has to learn where the chords are, because it's a whole n…"

"“That's one thing that's always, like, uh, the major difference between the performing arts to me, and being a painte…"

"I need to explore and discover and so that has given me, really, to some what seems like courage, but really it's jus…"

"I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat…"

"…This is a period of relaxation for me, but there are still some weeds that need pulling. I kind of go with Thumper, …"

"…It’s, you know, the words to the song are your script. You have to bring the correct emotion to every word. You know…"

"…I liked playing the coffeehouses, where I could step off the stage and go sit in the audience and be comfortable, or…"

"…The later work is much richer and deeper and smarter, and the arrangements are interesting too. Musically I grow, an…"

"(Do you ever make yourself cry when you write?) No, never. I’m not a weeper. I’m a snarler. I just put all the weepin…"

"Once I got the open tunings for some reason, I began to get the harmonic sophistication that I heard that my musical …"