I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.

I made this record without a record label.

I don't know too many people because I stay at my house, I write songs, I go to the store.

Shouldn't the low strings be at the bottom?

I'm not really getting too involved. My position is, Here's the record. I'm at your disposal.

I love to get people to sing and play together.

Rewriting to me means, if I work on it for three days, I've rewritten it.

You could put this record on and not get jarred half-way through. I wanted it to be all cut from one cloth, and that was the way we took it through the whole production process.

I'm going to play as much as they want me to, as long as I can put up with what they book me.

Some people just come in, do it and they know it's right. It turns out better than you imagined it was going to sound. When that happens, you take it as a gift.

If you're asking me to compare myself to other people, I don't really know what other people are like.

I was living in Woodstock for a long time, and I thought, I got to get out of here, man.

A person like Carole King could make up something, change it, and actually improve it.

I had 25 or 30 songs. Sequencing the record, I left that to the producer. I'm not into doing that stuff.

Some gigs will go great. I figure you do a gig, and as many as can get there will get there.

Every one of the songs was based around picking an acoustic guitar. That was part of the concept from the beginning, that the tempos were going to go from slow to almost mid-tempo.

It took a bit of talking through administrative people, but only once did an attorney try and get in the way of the process and say their artist couldn't do it.

I saw Krishnamurti speak one time. And I thought, I'm not going to live here.

I taught myself how to play when I was about 13. I'm a lefty.

Doing this James Brown thing for the last couple of days has been ideal. But it's a different kind of fun.

Why do it, just because I can? That's kind of crazy.

I guess any time you believe in God you've got to be considered a spiritual person. That would make me a spiritual person. But I don't really know what that means.

I tend to think of all the songs the same - I give them all kind of equal rights.

Things kind of happen organically with me.

The bottom string is tuned to an open G.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

The same people who never did their homework in high school are still doing that to this very day out in the real world.

People don't come to Asheville very often, and they don't know I'm there. I enjoy it. I like it.

I fear nothing so much as a man who is witty all day long.

Everyone in the '80s was reading Tolkien; he invented this whole medieval fantasy genre.

Weight Watchers is not intimidating. It's not a diet. It's a lifestyle.

I love doubleheaders. That way I get to keep my uniform on longer.

Endangered forests are being slaughtered for toilet paper.

I get my competitive edge from my mum. When we're together, we're competitive about little things - it'll be, 'I can bake cakes better than you can.' But she's never been a pushy parent; she's always just supported me.

I don't have a waist: I'm a breadbox on top of legs.

Once you have been through a certain amount of things in life, you definitely grow more comfortable with yourself. To persevere and hang in there and believe in yourself.

Architecture is how the person places herself in the space. Fashion is about how you place the object on the person.

I started getting really interested in comedy when I was in middle school.

A good deed is never lost. He who sows courtesy reaps friendship he who plants kindness gathers love pleasure bestowed on a grateful mind was never sterile but generally gratitude begets reward.

The best thing you can do for yourself is live a life that's fulfilling and do all the things that make you happy.

And though thou hadst small Latin, and less Greek.

I once bought my kids a set of batteries for Christmas with a note on it saying toys not included.

I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings.

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving.

In all candor, the Court fails to perceive any reason for suspending the power of courts to get evidence and rule on questions of privilege in criminal matters simply because it is the president of the United States who holds the evidence.

Youth is not a time of life, it is a state of mind. You are as old as your doubt, your fear, your despair. The way to keep young is to keep your faith young. Keep your self-confidence young. Keep your hope young.

The life of an action star is very short. I want to be an actor like Robert De Niro, like Dustin Hoffman or Clint Eastwood who in their 70s or 80s can still act.

Her friends say she is very funny. At a family dinner, she stood to go, and the footman very properly pulled her chair away. At that moment I asked her a question and she sat down again, except there was no chair. Everyone, including the Queen, laughed and laughed.

There's room for a diversity of ages on television.