Said 2,000 years of Christian history, baby And you ain't learned to love me yet?

I don't feel I'm thrown around by the winds of taste and fashion.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

The older I get, the more I feel those kinds of ghosts - especially the women in my life - moving out of the shadows a bit more and becoming more present in my life.

That's what we [outsiders] feel America is really about - the kind of crazed ravings of the Christian right - when it's probably something quite different.

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.

I think I have always had a pretty strong creative impulse. And that has probably saved me from abandoning myself completely.