Sometimes you write passages that don't need to be rewritten. Performance is that for me. Improvisation, things that happen in the moment, are sometimes wonderful, or wonderful as a moment to be shared between performer and people, but that's it. There might be a strong bond between you and the people, a transformative night, but as a live record it might not translate.

A lullaby should be timeless because it's a timeless concept - the birth of the child.

I liked being on stage, I just didn't like the theatrical aspect of being in front of people.

One day we’ll go in together, and the work will be ours.

For Christmas every year, my mother used to give me those cheap little diaries that would tell your horoscope and provide a little blank slot for each day.

I never really wanted to be a singer - not with any longevity. But I always wanted to be a writer.

He found it was as easy to hurl beauty as anything else. (On Robert Mapplethorpe)