One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

If you're lucky, you can keep the vehicle healthy and responsive over the years. If you're lucky, your own intentions have very little to do with this.

It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

To have [Adam's Cohen] microscopic attention to my work was really a great privilege.

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

Every heart to Love will come, but like a refugee

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.