[Prozac] didn't seem to have any effect whatsoever on my melancholy, my dark vision, and everything else that I'd taken it for.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

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

I have nothing against the Queen of England. Even in my heart I never resented her for not being Jackie Kennedy. She is, to my mind, a very gallant lady, victimized by whoever it is who designs the tops of her uniforms.

I dreamed about you baby. It was just the other night. Most of you was naked Ah, but some of you was light.

Raise a million filters and the rain will not be clean, until the longing for it be refined in deep confession.

We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.