It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.

I've forgotten most of what I've read and, frankly, it never seemed very important to me or to the world.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

I am not the one who loves - It's love that chooses me. When hatred with his package comes, you forbid delivery...

People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.

I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.