We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.

As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

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

There's always a nice tune [on radio] - helps you get the dishes done . I like to get the news from time to time - not too often. I don't feel deprived.

a kite is a victim you are sure of. you love it because it pulls.

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.