I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

When you're younger, you do have that thing that you were talking about where the mouth goes dry. I mean you have reactions, and you do fall in love.

I don't have a television set up [in the mountains], of course, but I find I don't miss it at all, or the newspaper. I've sneaked a radio into by cabin, but I find I turn it on very rarely.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.

I found that things became a lot easier when I no longer expected to win. You abandon your masterpiece and sink into the real masterpiece.

Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.

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