I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.

I was a drummer in the bugle band in cadets. I marched. It's probably quite funny to look back on it.

Be calm in the face of all common disgraces.

A lot of people influenced me as I was learning but probably Bing Crosby was the most influential, because I would hear his Christmas albums, which my parents played a lot.

She is my flower and she blooms for the one who loves her best.

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

I can remember sitting in a cabin outside of Denver writing that with a can of soup on the stove.