Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.

The winter has not killed usagain!

Well I am the one who loves changing from nothing to one.

You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.

Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.

Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.