We don't know what we're doing. We don't have a plan. We don't sit down and calculate it.

When you make a great record, it's around forever.

We don't know what we're doing. We don't have a plan. We don't sit down and calculate it.

When you first start doing it, being on tour is inspiring, because you've never been anywhere.

I want to make 20, 30, 50 studio records.

I get sick when I think about someone going to iTunes and downloading two songs off our album. It's not meant to be listened to that way.

I would read fishing reports on the road and then it just occurred to me: I should go to sea school and get my captain's license, see if I can get paid to be out here every day.

If you can find one thing in your life that can keep you in the moment, you're totally lucky.

If you write 50 songs, you're bound to write at least a dozen good ones.

It's quantity, not quality.

On tour, I'll get up at 5 p.m. and go to bed at 8 in the morning. With fishing, it's the exact opposite. Fishing is the only healthy thing I do. Touring is such a grind; it's the opposite of healthy.

The juxtaposition between fishing and touring couldn't be greater.

The worst thing that being an artist could do to you would be that it would make you slightly unhappy constantly.

I was in a rock band; I was my own folk singer; I was in a death metal band for a very short time; I was in a cover band, a jazz band, a blues band. I was in a gospel choir.

I feel there is no substitute for going out to the movies. There is nothing like it.

I believe that things are always going to work out, even if in the beginning it doesn't look like they are working out. I know in the long run they are going to work out, and it's going to be fine.

I sit and write songs alone and then get together with people to help me flesh it out into a recording.

I know I'm an acquired taste - I'm anchovies. And not everybody wants those hairy little things.

But I'm not objective when I'm acting.

Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless of their own and other tribes when abandoned.

You get a painting idea, and you go do that. You get a cinema idea, and you go in to do that. The difference is, even though the paintings might take some time to make, with cinema you are booked for a year and a half, minimum.

In the summer of 1966, I went to Mississippi to be in the heart of the civil-rights movement, helping people who had been thrown off the farms or taken off the welfare roles for registering to vote. While working there, I met the civil-rights lawyer I later married - we became an interracial couple.

We have today a fairly thorough knowledge of the early Greco-Roman period because our motivations are the same.

We, like the people of Israel, would like to think we get to name God. By naming God, we hope to get the kind of god we need; that is, a god after our own likeness.

I'm always running back and forth to the district.

Without freedom of speech I might be in the swamp.

For the life of the believer, one thing is beautifully and abundantly true: God's chief concern in your suffering is to be with you and be Himself for you. And in the end, what we discover is that this really is enough.

For a long time, Nella Larsen was the mystery woman of the Harlem Renaissance. In the late 1920s, she published two sophisticated novels, 'Quicksand' and 'Passing,' and then her writing life came to an end. She died in obscurity in 1964.

I think I'm most excited about traveling and shooting and spending time in L.A. I have a great talent agency there and, you know, working with my acting coach and really putting in the time and effort to transition into the acting.

I was not a very good Jew. I never practised what Judaism tells you to do, to teach your kids all about Judaism.

When youre in a crisis of you know tremendous proportions its beyond any human capability to control you just make the best decisions you can and you just hope that your intuition is correct.

When I sign people's stuff, I put down John 3:16 and 17.

My father had a series of blue-collar jobs and never made more than $20,000 a year. When I was seven, he got injured on a job. That was a very important point - because of the injury, he couldn't walk, and the company he was working for did not pay him. There was no compensation. So there was no money and no food.

When darkness falls beauty is lit from within.

I do shamefully little for charity, and I always talk about it when I do.

Fame is hollow. It amplifies what is there. If there is any self-doubt, or hatred, or lack of ability to connect with people, fame will magnify it.