We do what only lovers can: make a gift out of necessity.

You go your way I'll go your way too

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

Suzanne had a room on a waterfront street in the port of Montreal. Everything happened just as it was put down. She was the wife of a man I knew. Her hospitality was immaculate. Some months later I sang it for Judy Collins over the telephone. The publishing rights were lost in New York City, but it is probably appropriate that I don't own this song. Just the other day I heard some people singing it on a ship in the Caspian Sea.