I've always held the song in high regard because songs have got me through so many sinks of dishes and so many humiliating courting events.

I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.

As soon as anybody does one of my songs, I rejoice. This particular case of all these great singers doing my work - the implications are very rich and the temptation to think of the outcome of these masses of the mainstream injecting my work into the marketplace, it's a very sweet speculation.

Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five!

Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.

People used to say my music was too difficult or too obscure, and I never set out to be difficult or obscure. I just set out to write what I felt as honestly as I could, and I am delighted when other people feel a part of themselves in the music.

Undertow" "I set out one night When the tide was low There were signs in the sky But I did not know I'd be caught in the grip Of the undertow Ditched on a beach Where the sea hates to go With a child in my arms And a chill in my soul And my heart the shape Of a begging bowl