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

I feel that this is a vocabulary that I grew up with. This biblical landscape is very familiar to me, and it's natural that I use those landmarks as references. Once they were universal references and everybody understood and knew them and located them. That's no longer the case today, but it is still my landscape.

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

Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing.

Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.

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

We are ugly but we have the music.