Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.

It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.

Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.

I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.

Growing old becomes clear to you at a certain point. I think it's after the age of 70 you realize - you begin to actually be convinced - you're growing older.

If you don't become the ocean, you'll be seasick every day.

The wars they will be fought again The holy dove be caught again bought and sold and bought again; the dove is never free.