When you reach that kind of successful pinnacle, it is the nature of the business and the press and everything that they go about tearing you down.

Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.

But now old friends are acting strange They shake their heads, they say I've changed Well something's lost, but something's gained In living every day

Bows and flows of angel hair and ice cream castles in the air and feather canyons everywhere, I've looked at clouds that way.

I'm a painter first, and a musician second.

The Blue album, there’s hardly a dishonest note in the vocals. At that period of my life, I had no personal defenses. I felt like a cellophane wrapper on a pack of cigarettes. I felt like I had absolutely no secrets from the world and I couldn’t pretend in my life to be strong. Or to be happy. But the advantage of it in the music was that there were no defenses there, either.

Fly silly sea bird, no dreams can possess you, no voices can blame you for sun on your wings.