I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.

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

They ended every speech with the word hiro, which means: like I said. Thus each man took responsibility for intruding into the inarticulate murmur of the spheres. To hiro they added the word koue, a cry of joy or distress, according to whether it was sung or howled. Thus they essayed to piece the mysterious curtain which hangs between all talking men: at the end of every utterance a man stepped back, so to speak, and attempted to interpret his words to the listener, attempted to subvert the beguiling intellect with the noise of true emotion.

I’ve seen the nations rise and fall. I’ve heard their stories, heard them all, but love’s the only engine of survival.

Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity.

Your heart opens and of course you're completely panicked because you're used to guarding this organ with your life.

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