Everybody knows the dice are loaded.

It just takes a long time for me [to write a song]. I'm very slow. And it comes, kind of, by dribbles and drops.

People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.

A poem has a certain - a different time. For instance, a poem is a very private experience, and it doesn't have a driving tempo. In other words, you know, you can go back and forward; you can comeback; you can linger. You know, it's a completely different time reference.

I greet you from the other side of sorrow and despair, with a love so vast and shattered it will reach you everywhere.

I don't know which side is anybody on any more. I don't really care. There is a moment when we have to transcend the side we're on and understand that we are creatures of a higher order.

Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.