Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song.

Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin Dance me through the panic 'til I'm gathered safely in Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love

It's four in the morning, the end of december I'm writing you now just to see if you're better.

My friends are gone and my hair is grey. I ache in places I used to play. And I’m crazy for love but I’m not coming on. I’m just paying my rent every day in the tower of song.

First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.

It's been a long time since I've stood on a stage in London. Was about 14 or 15 years ago, I was 60 years old, just a kid with a crazy dream. Since then I've taken a lot of Prozac, Paxil, Wellbutrin, Effexor, Ritalin, Focalin. I've also studied deeply in the philosophies and the religions, but cheerfulness kept breaking through.