It is the most delightful thing that ever happens to me, when I hear something coming out of my guitar and out of my mouth that wasn't there before.

['Fire and Rain'] is sort of almost uncomfortably close. Almost confessional. The reason I could write a song like that at that point, and probably couldn't now, is that I didn't have any sense that anyone would hear it. I started writing the song while I was in London...and I was totally unknown.... So I assumed that they would never be heard. I could just write or say anything I wanted. Now I'm very aware, and I have to deal with my stage fright and my anxiety about people examining or judging it. The idea that people will pass judgment on it is not a useful thought.

I sometimes wonder how many of these lifetime achievement awards you can accept before you have to do the decent thing and die.

I collect hats. That's what you do when you're bald.

Though the body sleeps, the heart will never rest.

I am myself for a living. I don't animate a character.

Turn away from your animal kind, try to leave your body, just to live in your mind.