I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that which we are hoping to serve. So this is just a part of my nature and I think everybody else's nature to offer oneself at the critical moment when the emergency becomes articulate. It's only then that we can locate that willingness to serve.

I don't trust my inner feelings, inner feelings come and go.

When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.