I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

English, I know you ... you are German with a license to kill.

You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.

I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there.

I'd written a lot of songs with hummingbirds in them. None of them ever came to anything, but I did write a few lines last month. It went like this: 'Listen to the hummingbird whose wings you cannot see. Listen to the hummingbird, don't listen to me'.

The blizzard of the world has crossed the threshold and it's overturned the order of the soul.

I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.