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

I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

And I'll dance with you in Vienna, I'll be wearing a river's disguise. The hyacinth wild on my shoulder my mouth on the dew of your thighs. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moss. And I'll yield to the flood of your beauty, my cheap violin and my cross.

[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

I don't have any spiritual strategy.

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

I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.