What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.
I've guess I've gotten older and my sex appeal has waned. It's OK. I've got an amazing girlfriend and she keeps me happy.
I wanted to remind people that there was a time when music required an attention span.
I didn't want to put myself, or anyone else, asleep with another quintessential Mark Kozelek album.
When I get compared to artists like José González or Bon Iver, I can't help but think, 'I've been doing this since they were in third grade. '
When you're a touring musician, you're always turning over new rocks and there's always a certain level of tension in your life. The music business, and the travel that comes with it, is stressful, challenging, redundant, exhausting, exciting, and often very depressing. After all of these years, I'm still trying to cope with aspects of it.
We're all human and life is complicated.
One cannot change, that is to say become a different person, while continuing to acquiesce to the feelings of the person one has ceased to be.
With respect to Committees as you would perceive I am very jealous of their formation. I mean working committees. I think business is always better done by few than by many. I think also the working few ought not to be embaras[s]ed by the idle many and further I think the idle many ought not to be honoured by association with the working few. -I do not think that my patience has ever come nearer to an end than when compelled to hear. . . long rambling malapropros enquiries of members who still have nothing in consequence to propose that shall advance the business.
I got cocky and I stopped taking my vitamins. It was an inconvenience to have a suitcase full of vitamins with me on the road. About two years ago, it caught up with me.
I sing in key, thank you very much.