If you want a lover I'll do anything you ask me to. And if you want another kind of love I'll wear a mask for you.

You who wish to conquer pain, you must learn what makes one kind.

No one's ever done one of my songs badly. People say to me, "God, so-and-so wrecked that song." Well, I'm unaware of it. Anybody doing one of my tunes has earned my gratitude, and I don't get that many covers where I have the luxury to choose.

The Dream" "O I had such a wonderful dream, she said. I dreamed you made love to me. At last, he said to himself, the spirit has taken up some of the heavy work.

We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

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

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.