Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.

I have tried in my way to be free.

English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.

I heard of a man who says words so beautifully that if he only speaks their name women give themselves to him. If I am dumb beside your body while silence blossoms like tumors on our lips it is because I hear a man climb stairs and clear his throat outside our door.