If your life is a leaf that the seasons tear off and condemn they will bind you with love that is graceful and green as a stem.

I would like to work with Pat [ Leonard] in any capacity. I would love to hear his versions.

You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.

I'm writing all the time. And as the songs begin to coalesce, I'm not doing anything else but writing. I wish I were one of those people who wrote songs quickly. But I'm not. So it takes me a great deal of time to find out what the song is.

It's like a bear stumbling into a beehive or a honey cache: I'm stumbling right into it and getting stuck, and it's delicious and it's horrible and I'm in it and it's not very graceful and it's very awkward and it's very painful and yet there's something inevitable about it.

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

Stunned and still not suffering. Swollen with care and anxiety and still not suffering. Useless, old and full of grief, but still not suffering.