Pastoral Resources

When I was five my parents bought me a ukulele for Christmas. I quickly learned how to play it with my father's guidance. Thereafter, my father regularly taught me all the good old fashioned songs.

The first step, my son, which one makes in the world, is the one on which depends the rest of our days.

I want my careless song to strike no minor key; no fiend to stand between my body's Southern song - the fusion of the South, my body's song and me.

He didn't want to tell his son what to do, but told me to write the president a letter. I didn't name a country, but there are many countries we have a fragile relationship with.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.

Our children, two daughters and a son, were born in 1874, 1876, and 1879.

Of course that was my idol, Son House. I think he did a lot for the Mississippi slide down there.

I always used to look at books and wonder how anybody could come up with so many words. But my divorce and then falling in love with somebody else has released in me an ability to write in other ways apart from songs.

Either you write songs or you don't. And if you do write songs like I do, I think there's a natural desire to want to make records.

Flower was a good metaphor for growth. The song is obviously about sexual responsibility, so that was the main metaphor. Also, it's like knowing who someone has been and remembering and appreciating that, but really appreciating what they are now even more.

I want to try and do as much as I can as an actor. So far I think I've done pretty well with being a minister's son. And now I know I'm pretty darn good at playing a woman too.

Empires dissolve and peoples disappear, song passes not away.

Yes, threadbare seem his songs, to lettered ken - they were worn threadbare next the hearts of men.

I don't need to hear Bill to go through a song. I need to hear Keith to go through a song. I know Bill will be playing what I'm playing anyway. I need to hear Keith because it's all there: the time, the chord changes, and all the licks you have to follow.

Perhaps host and guest is really the happiest relation for father and son.

Don't hold your parents up to contempt. After all, you are their son, and it is just possible that you may take after them.

The people who are making money are the ones who are writing and singing their own songs.

We had been working. We had a bunch of songs written and it came time to make the record, so we had our lawyer make the call to Elektra and ask for our advance. Then, we got dropped. It was actually exciting.

I wrote most of these songs right before the end. A lot of these songs are about that. Even if it's not direct, you can feel the beginning of the end of the breakup in these songs.

A lot of those songs are actually about Sarah, who I was recently divorced from about five or six months ago. I'd been seeing her off and on since I was about nineteen, so a lot of those songs are about her.