"To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away."

“Don’t ever put your happiness in someone else’s hands. They’ll drop it. They’ll drop it every time.”

Source : Christopher Barzak (2007). “One For Sorrow”, p.9, Bantam

“The fear of seeing ourselves as we are ensures we will never see the end of our fears.”

“Trump is dividing people against each other; he's going to try and sow racial division; so you have to figure out an answer. I think really the only answer for the Democratic Party, or for progressives at large, is to have an answer about how these people who haven't been to college, who haven't had a lot of things given to them in life, are going to do better, year after year after year.”

“It's funny: I've been very successful and done a lot of films, and I don't really have an agent - I don't really pursue jobs, I let people come to me.”

“You would almost think it would be the opposite, but making a film sort of made me freer in my acting.”

“It is always disillusioning to weigh your fish and measure your golf drives. Smart men estimate them.”

Source : Havilah Babcock (2016). “My Health is Better in November: Thirty-Five Stories of Hunting and Fishing in the South”, p.26, Pickle Partners Publishing

“I have always thought that if I could turn back the pages of history and photograph one man, my choice would be Moses.”

“Capitalism and the market are presented as synonymous, but they are not. Capitalism is both the enemy of the market and democracy.”

Source : "Globalization and After". Book edited by Samir Dasgupta and Ray Kiely, 2006.