"It's pretty awesome to be in a band with your wife! The tour, it beats you down, and we can just share that, and sometimes revel in the experience. If she wasn't here, or she was just here as a civilian, she maybe would feel uncomfortable."

“The problem is, the Republican Party hasn't done anything to make this country better and I speak as a Republican.”

“Time is what creates trust.”

Source : "Ethan Hawke and Richard Linklater Talk "Boyhood", Tackling the Ambitious Project, Deleted Scenes, Keeping in Contact, Pop Culture Trends, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 7, 2014.

“Please not thyself the flattering crowd to hear; 'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching ear. Survey thy soul, not what thou does appear, But what thou art.”

“A well-judging man will open his trunk-line of study in such a direction that, while habitually adhering to it, he may enjoy a ready access to such other fields of knowledge as are most nearly related to it.”

“I saw old autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like silence, listening To silence.”

Source : 'Ode: Autumn'

“I am not a saint, unless you think of a saint as a sinner who keeps on trying.”

“Songs come from all over the place. You can't predict what you're going to like. You might like something that doesn't fit right now. What was working for you at one point, something you've loved for years and years, when you get together with everybody, you think, this doesn't match up with what's going on with you personally.”

“I get up at sunrise. I'm a Buddhist, so I chant in the morning. My wife and I sit and have coffee together, but then it's list-making time. I have carpentry projects. We have roads we keep in repair. It's not back-breaking, but it's certainly aerobic and mildly strenuous.”

Source : "Goodbye Texas, hello Woking!" by William Leith, www.theguardian.com. November 14, 2006.