How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

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.

Daydreamin' drugs the pain of living.

I met a redneck on a Grecian isle who did the Goat Dance very well.

He's swept with the broom of contempt and the rooms have an empty ring.

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

I see the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect.