Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

It's inappropriate for an elderly chap to register, you know, authentically, his feelings, you know, because they really can be interpreted. So you have to get quite covert as you get older. Or you have to find some avuncular way, you know, of responding.

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.

Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.