It's hard to be serious about so many things. [Look at the whole emphasis] on the charts, if you're a songwriter.

I told the truth, I didn't come to fool you

To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself.

Love is not a victory march

My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.

I almost went to bed without remembering the four white violets I put in the button-hole of your green sweater and how i kissed you then and you kissed me shy as though I’d never been your lover

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.