Any of the decisions that I made, if one could actually locate a shape or form, were all within a wall, the landscape of music.

May you be surrounded by friends and family, and if this is not your lot, may the blessings find you in your solitude.

It was a dance of masks and every mask was perfect because every mask was a real face and every face was a real mask so there was no mask and there was no face for there was but one dance in which there was but one mask but one true face which was the same and which was a thing without a name which changed and changed into itself over and over.

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

Just to get serious about this thing, you know. One has to be compassionate. It's true that people are up against things, economically and emotionally.

I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.