"I prefer doing interviews where people don't have to interpret what you say. I'm going to be real honest."

“Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.”

“I'm an old guy. I've been doing this a long time. And I don't hustle and I don't bustle. I have seen the people who hustle and bustle, and they are already gone, at a young age.”

Source : The Believer interview, www.believermag.com. March 2003.

“Deepika is the epitome of classiness and hotness; she maintains that balance really well.”

“Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.”

“To be honest I live among the English and have always found them to be very honest in their business dealings. They are noble, hard-working and anxious to do the right thing. But joy eludes them, they lack the joy that the Irish have.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“There are three things which the public will always clamor for, sooner or later: namely, novelty, novelty, novelty.”

“Some doors are best left closed.”

Source : George R. R. Martin (2005). “A Feast for Crows: A Song of Ice and Fire: Book Four”, p.543, Bantam

“... coming to a place like Nashville, which is just music music music, it's always been such an influence on me. And there are so many interesting songwriters out there, and it's such a crazy business and so many people are trying to do it, and it's all right there in Nashville.”