What I like best about music is when time goes away.
More fun than a frog in a glass of milk.
The same song on a different day was a different song.
We're just inviting adventure into our life, and adventure carries a little baggage.
I think if people value democracy, they had damn well better get out and exercise their right to vote while their vote still means something.
Bicycles are almost as good as guitars for meeting girls.
Everybody has something to bring to the table.
We have a society that's trying to make sure that nobody gets any adventures because adventures are dangerous and danger is bad.
Grace isn't enough. You've got to intend to be there when it's happening.
What if all tomorrow brings is ashes and glass, and I can't tell you child, 'this too shall pass.' If all the world were windswept, cold and gray. And in the end there's nothing left to say.
I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my head from TV, and especially I don't get the stuff that I carry around in my heart from TV.
The ones that catch your eye are the ones that are basically people who live on the road and follow us around. They're a small percentage of the audience, but they're quite visible. The ones who aren't visible are the stockbrokers, lawyers, doctors, housewives.
I think it's real important that people understand where the music comes from. If you can see where the music comes from, you can also see the future. It gives you a trajectory.
Slowly you become your own man.
Dynamic benign neglect.
That's right! The women are smarter!
Sometimes it's a huge amble, where you're just on top, on the lid, and it's not going anywhere, and sometimes you walk on the stage and from the first note, the afterburner kicks in and you can't stop it.
If for instance, in a board meeting, if you have an idea, it better be a good idea, or you're not going to get everybody's attention.
What's changed? I'm a dad. That's fundamental. Watching your kids grow, you go back a bit. You can watch a bug crawling around for minutes at a time--just sit and marvel at its complexity, the utter bugness of it. I've learned to do that again.
The meetings can be a lot of fun or they can be frustrating.
Certain kinds of people just can't live life taking risks with adventure.
The roughest part for me when I'm writing a song is staring at a blank page. Where am I going from here? If you're a songwriter, you have to do that every time you start a song.
The rule is not written anywhere, it's not etched in any - but, I mean, that's the prevailing attitude of this entire society. Don't have an adventure.
I have not made many conscious efforts to "re-imagine" songs. I just let them happen the way they're going to happen.
I still retain a bit of a child's focus on things, so we [with my sister] figure if we're going to write books, our best shot is to write children's books, because we relate pretty readily on that level.
