... 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

If I knew where the good songs came from, I’d go there more often. It’s a mysterious condition. It’s much like the life of a Catholic nun. You’re married to a mystery.

Reality is one of the possibilities I cannot afford to ignore

You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.

I think there's an appetite for seriousness. Seriousness is voluptuous, and very few people have allowed themselves the luxury of it.

When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.

I feel that, you know, the enormous luck I've had in being able to make a living, and to never have had to have written one word that I didn't want to write, to be able to have satisfied that dictum I set for myself, which was not to work for pay, but to be paid for my work - just to be able to satisfy those standards that I set for myself has been an enormous privilege.