... 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

Maybe the culture is [particularly] shabby now. Maybe it's because I'm over sixty, that I can feel that about everything.

I turned my back on the devil, turned my back on the angel too.

You go your way I'll go your way too

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

My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room. This system has just worked for me, even though I've had to sweat over every word. It's just my style.

ordinary eternal machinery, like the grinding of the stars