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

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

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

His vision was just outstanding. If you think of him in the same way as Pele then you would come close.

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

I see people allowing their lives to diminish, to become shallow, so they can't enjoy the deep wells of experience. Maybe it's always been this way, when the heart tends to shut down. If only the heart shut down and there were no repercussions, it would be O.K., but when the heart shuts down, the whole system goes into a kind of despair that is intolerable.

The less I was of who I was, the better I felt.