Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.

Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows what a very different kind of daily existence one has. I was smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. And I was drinking heavily on tours.

Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.