We've got to temper anything we say with that. On the other hand, you've got to be serious about what you do. And you've got to understand the price you pay for frivolity or just for greed - it's a very high price, especially if you're involved in this sacred material, which is about the human heart and human desire and human tragedy.

I loved you in the morning, our kisses deep and warm, your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy, golden storm, yes many loved before us, I know we are not new, in city and in forest they smiled like me and you, but now it's come to distances and both of us must try, your eyes are soft with sorrow, Hey, that's no way to say goodbye.

My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.

Some people are graced with a flow; some people are graced with something less than a flow. I'm one of those.

There is a war between the ones who say there is a war and the ones who say there isn't.

Maybe there's a god above but the only thing I learned from love was how to shoot at somebody who outdrew you.

My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke that caused me to laugh bitterly through the ten thousand nights I spent alone.