"The less I talk in bars, write emails, express myself in an emotionally lewd way outside of my songwriting, the more I have to do it through my music."

“I've always wanted to make a bluegrass album.”

“Perhaps you'd care for a synonym bun," suggested the duke.”

“Reagan was all about America, and you talked about it. Obama is, 'We are above that now. We're not just parochial, we're not just chauvinistic, we're not just provincial. We stand for something.' I mean, in a way, Obama's standing above the country, above - above the world. He's sort of God. He's going to bring all different sides together.”

Source : "Newsweek's Evan Thomas: Obama Is 'Sort of God'". "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.newsbusters.org. June 5, 2009.

“I will not try to run my own life or the lives of others; that is God's business.”

“I say Democrats should not be afraid to talk about the morality of life, of caring for children who are born. It seems the Republican obsession with being pro-life lasts about nine months. After that, it's each baby for herself.”

Source : "Republicans: What About Children Outside the Womb?" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. August 27, 2012.

“Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers.”

“I tried so hard with movies like Vertigo and Middle of the Night and others. I felt those would show me that it's only a matter of time before I'd find the right one to reach out and touch people.”

“Luxury is a necessity that begins where necessity ends”