I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

There is a crack in everything, that's how the light gets in.

I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

As I grew older, I understood that instructions came with this voice. What were these instructions? The instructions were never to lament casually. And if one is to express the great inevitable defeat that awaits us all, it must be done within the strict confines of dignity and beauty.

Fare thee well my nightingale, I lived but to be near you. Thow you are singing somewhere still I can no longer hear you.

... i didn't fall in love of course it's never up to you but she was walking back and forth and i was passing through

A song, you know, you've got a tempo. You know,you've got something that is moving swiftly. You can't stop it, you know? Andit's designed to move swiftly from, you know, mouth to mouth, heart to heart,where a poem really speaks to something that has no time and that is - it's acompletely different perception.