I think that all the spiritual training is just to be able to allow you to experience this from a slightly different perspective - one that's a little more stabilized.

You should go from place to place recovering the poems that have been written for you to which you can affix your signature. Don't discuss these matters with anyone. Retrieve. Retrieve. When the basket is full someone will appear to whom you can present it.

Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

We all are motivated by deep impulses and deep appetites to serve, even though we may not be able to locate that which we are hoping to serve. So this is just a part of my nature and I think everybody else's nature to offer oneself at the critical moment when the emergency becomes articulate. It's only then that we can locate that willingness to serve.