It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

Music is the emotional life of the most people.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.