Anyone who's been a heavy drinker and heavy smoker and has the good future to survive that and give it up knows what a very different kind of daily existence one has. I was smoking a couple of packs of cigarettes a day. And I was drinking heavily on tours.

The moon is swimming naked and the summer night is fragrant with a mighty expectation of relief.

The duty of lovers is to tarnish the Golden Rule

A woman watches her body uneasily, as though it were an unreliable ally in the battle for love.

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

As a young man, Yeats spoke to me in a way I could understand. Shakespeare I couldn't understand, but Yeats I could. It was his subject matter and also I really admired the way he put his personal life on the line.

No penance serves to renew them, no massive transfusions of trust. Why not even revenge can undo them, so twisted these vows and so crushed.