If my thought-dreams could be seen/ They'd probably put my head in a guillotine.

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.

I think I have a dualistic nature.

I'm not a playwright. The people in my songs are all me.

Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.

I'm good with songs I haven't written, if I like them. I'm glad I didn't write any of them. I already know how they go, so I have more freedom with them. I understand these songs. I've known them for 40 years, 50 years, maybe longer, and they make a lot of sense. So I'm not coming to them like a stranger.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.