I felt like if any two people had any kind of sexual affinity for each other they had to sleep with each other immediately, otherwise it was a terrible betrayal and waste...Fortunately, I'm relieved of those obsessions now. It's really wonderful. It's really wonderful not feeling you have to sleep with everybody.

It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.

I loved you when you opened like a lily to the heat; you see I’m just another snowman standing in the rain and sleet who loved you with his frozen love, his second hand physique, with all he is and all he was a thousand kisses deep.

You go your way I'll go your way too

One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].