I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.

A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.

When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.

Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.

I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.

This mental space is occupied and everything is mine.