One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of this process of exchange.
This is a free country. Folks have a right to send me letters, and I have a right not to read them.
. . . how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.
Your illusions are a part of you like your bones and flesh and memory.
The quality an artist must have is objectivity in judging his work, plus the honesty and courage not to kid himself about it.
Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.
Everyone in the South has no time for reading because they are all too busy writing.
Nobody can tell you you're wrong for writing a song about how you feel - even if you don't really feel that way.
I spent many years trying to write a lot like Ben Folds or John Lennon or Rivers Cuomo. I think that's healthy when you're learning to write and seeing how chords fit together and how songs take shape.
Each person can make their difference.
Time does nothing but hand you down shabbier and older things.