I'm not sure what I'm trying to say, it could be that I've lost my way.

Self-discovery in songwriting, bringing something forth that's instructive to yourself - some of the best songs that you will ever write are the ones where you didn't have to think about any of that stuff, but nonetheless that's what's happening in the song.

Famine and disaster, right there in front of you, and the more you watch, the less you do.

I love to read. I love to stretch. In the morning, I get up, and if I'm not in a hurry, I will lie on the floor on a rug, look through some books and magazines, and maybe listen to music and try to do stretching exercises to tune up.

I want to know what became of the changes we waited for love to bring/Were they only the fitful dreams of some greater awakening?

It was a great time to be born, because I got to have my own publishing company right from the beginning, so I made more money than somebody would have doing what I did ten or fifteen years before.

That's maybe the most important thing each generation does, is to break a lot of rules and make up their own way of doing things.