Roast beef, medium, is not only a food. It is a philosophy.

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.

Life can't defeat a writer who is in love with writing, for life itself is a writer's lover until death.

What was interesting about grunge was that it was this death sentence to the rock that had preceded it, which was hair metal.

For me, its like go ahead and eat. Live your life. I mean, I've just seen so much death, you know, as of late, being in my 40s, of people getting sick or, you know, whatever, that I just feel like, you know what? You never know with life. Eat. Enjoy yourself. Just try to be healthy and, you know, and watch it.

In order to speak about all and to all, one has to speak of what all know and of the reality common to us all. The sea, rains, necessity, desire, the struggle against death... these are things that unite us all.

Well when I made my first record I thought it would be a good joke to have me on one side, have the lable say John Fahey on one side, and this guy Blind Joe Death on the other side.