The thought that life could be better is woven indelibly into our hearts and our brains.

I don't think [Dylan and the Beatles] influenced me a lot. I think it was inevitable; they were so powerful that you couldn't really escape the influence.

The leaves that are green turn to brown. And they wither with the wind. And they crumble in your hand.

Losing love is like a window in your heart.

I really don't know what exactly all the songs mean. Sometimes other people have meanings and when I hear them I think, 'That's really a better meaning than I thought, and perfectly valid, given the words that exist.' So part of what makes a song really good is that people take in different meanings, and they apply them, and they might be more powerful than the ones I'm thinking.

All lies and jests, still a man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest.

I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.