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.

I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.

You go your way I'll go your way too

Follow me, the wise man said, but he walked behind.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.