When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

How can I begin anything new with all of yesterday in me?

Seriousness is the deepest pleasure we have.

...a young nurse is standing close behind me wondering whether she is being drawn by my power or her charity.

Other people singing my songs is something that I've never been casual about. I've always been very touched by it and I always go into immediate critical suspension.