Even if you don't have all the things you want, be grateful for the things you don't have that you don't want (Bob Dylan's dad)

Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

I am hanging in the balance of a perfect finished plan, like every sparrow falling, like every grain of sand.

Creativity has much to do with experience, observation and imagination, and if any one of those key elements is missing, it doesn't work.

The purpose of art is to stop time.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

As he weeps to wicked birds of prey, who pick up on his bread crumb sins, and there are no sins inside the Gates of Eden.