this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

He knew that hair couldn't feel; he kissed her hair.

Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.

Does anybody have a cigarette? I'm looking forward to that first smoke. I've been looking forward to [it] for about 30 years.

The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.

I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.

As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.