Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

I cannot start a story or chapter without knowing how it ends. ... Of course, it rarely ends that way.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

You say you’re sure? Sure that you’re in love? How can you know it? You think love is so simple?

Your life must now run the course that's been set for it.

What is pertinent is the calmness of beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it.

My friends and I took songwriting very, very seriously. My hero was and still is Bob Dylan, but also people like Leonard Cohen and Joni Mitchell and that whole generation.