I'm afraid to live any place but in expectation. I'm no life-risk.

I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

Ah, grief makes us precise!

The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.

Don't call yourself a secret unless you mean to keep it.

You've got a deadline. Well, I do, too: death.

[Europe has] this tradition of self revelation in popular music. We have it here - it's called Country Western Music... I think that's where the deeper and more complex subjects are treated.