Quotes from Josh Ritter

I'm singing for the love of it/Have mercy on the man who sings to be adored.

God can give or take away, Well who would make such an awful rule.

The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

Its been a long time coming but now the snow is gone

Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up.

I do think that there's art that is tortured, but I prefer art that has the joy in it.