Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

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.

I’ll be marching through the morning, Marching through the night, Moving 'cross the borders Of My Secret Life.

The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.

Garages, barns and attics are always older than the buildings to which they are attached.

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

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