Townes Van Zandt

“I was just tapped on the shoulder from above and told to write these songs, as opposed to wanting to be a success in the music business.”

“I don't think you can ever do your best. Doing your best is a process of trying to do your best.”

“I'd like to write some songs that are so good that nobody understands them. Not even myself.”

“What I do is between me and the Lord, to examine and possibly alter the state of grace in which I live, and thereby the state of grace of anybody who listens.”

“I'm the mold that grunge was grown in.”

“I don't know why I write really depressing songs. I'm a kind of melancholy guy, I suppose. But I figure I'm about normal.”

“Human's can't live in the present as animals do; they just live in the present. But human's are always thinking about the future or the past.”

“I don't envision a very long life for myself. I think my life will run out before my work does. I've designed it that way.”