People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.

If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

The term clinical depression finds its way into too many conversations these days. One has a sense that a catastrophe has occurred in the psychic landscape.

Deprivation is the mother of poetry.

I don't have any spiritual strategy.

Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.

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