You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.

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

In My Secret Life" "I saw you this morning, you were moving so fast. Can't seem to loosen my grip On the past. And I miss you so much, there's no one in sight. And we're still making love In my secret life. I smile when I am angry, I cheat and I lie, I do what I have to do to get by, In my secret life.

I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life.

Coroner's inquest: death by drowning. And he hasn't been to the sea-shore in ten years.