"Every time you get on a stage or in front of a camera, the whole exercise is about imagination. You're constantly depicting something that doesn't exist, and trying to find the reality of it. Once you settle on that premise, everything else is a matter of degrees."

"I think there are a lot of technocrats in the business who would much rather work with just wheels and gears and machinery. Those things interest them more than humanity and I wish them the best of luck."

"I'm thankful to be breathing, on this side of the grass. Whatever comes, comes."

"The great thing about arriving at this age is that I don't even care about my career anymore."

"A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it."

"There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing."

"To know ourselves, is agreed by all to be the most useful Learning the first Lessons, therefore, given us ought to be on that Subject."

"I didn't want to be this four-chord acoustic singer songwriter because that stuff just got so old to me."