Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.

I'd had a rough childhood.

I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it.

Rachmaninoff made a musician out of me. His 'Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini' was the piece that sent me into raptures. It spoke to me. To me, it was a tender entreaty for the misunderstood.

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.

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

Innocence is drowned in anarchy. The best lack conviction given time to think, and the worst are full of passion without mercy.