I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.

She was made of flesh and eyelashes.

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

Suffering, violent suffering, seems to be something that corresponds with something that we experience.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, "God, so-and-so wrecked that song." Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose.

Dream after dream we all lie in each other's arms