Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.

There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.

We are awakening from the dream of isolation, from the dream of loneliness, and it's a terrible shock.

I'm not a very nostalgic person. I don't really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.

And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.