Sometimes I get lonesome for a storm. A fullblown storm where everything changes.

The point on nonviolence is to build a floor, a strong new floor, beneath which we can no longer sink.

I wish it was clear for me how it happened [stop writing songs], then maybe I could start writing again. But it's kind of an "it." It just submerged itself. Because the way I had always written was just that it came out. It just happened.

If it's natural to kill, how come men have to go into training to learn how?

You may not know it, but at the far end of despair, there is a white clearing where one is almost happy.

I have hope in people, in individuals. Because you don't know what's going to rise from the ruins.

If it came back I would be thrilled. I would be delighted to write more songs. I need them now because I want to make an album and I have to depend on other people's music, which I've done for years. But still, it'd be really nice to be able to sprinkle it with my own.