What [Prozac] does is completely annihilate the sexual drive, so the question of passion hardly arises.

I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while. Also, the title singer was kindly accorded me, even though I could barely carry a tune.

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

Love is not a victory march

At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.

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.

Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.