I've seen the future and it's murder.

Something I wrote quite a few years ago was, "The voices in my head, they don't care what I do, they just want to argue the matter through and through." It is a common mistake, to think you're going to go into some kind of spiritual practice and you're going to be relieved of the human burdens, from human crosses like thought, jealousy, despair - in fact, if anything, these feelings are amplified.

Silence And a deeper silence When the crickets Hesitate

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

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.

I don't remember lighting this cigarette and I don't remember if I'm here alone or waiting for someone.