“It’s amazing to have people singing a song back to you on a stage. It’s great to finish recording a song and play it for your friend, and they love it. That feels good. But nothing feels better than when you’ve finished something and you know it’s good, and you know that those other responses will come in time.”

“I finished your song, she said. Our last song. And I want to play it for you.”

“Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.”

“The odd time something happens and you go into some kind of enchantment (on stage). But you have to work very hard to get that. Most of the time you're just playing and singing the songs, and there's no guarantee that you are going to get anywhere….”

“People have kept on asking me: did he sing well? I reply, the world is a song, but we do not know whether it is a good song because we have nothing to compare it with.”

“If you do not know what you feel, then it is difficult to choose love; it is better to fall. Then you do not have to be responsible for your actions.”

“To write a good love letter, you ought to begin without knowing what you mean to say, and to finish without knowing what you have written.”

“The problem with doing nothing is not knowing when you are finished.”

“It makes you feel good to know that there's other people afflicted like you.”

“You know you've read a good book when you turn the last page and feel a little as if you have lost a friend.”