Oh the sisters of mercy, they are not departed or gone.

I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song...

A community is an alibi for the failure of individual love.

It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.

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

No one masters the heart.

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.