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I don't really know why an idea comes to me. But all of a sudden, an idea comes and from experience I can intuit what something means when an interesting line pops up. Or I can intuit what an interesting choice might be. And I can try a couple of different choices, and see which one feels right, and then continue the song to see where it goes.

Some people never say the words ‘I love you’, for like a child they’re longing to be told.

Then she kissed me and I realized she probably was right, there must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

My voice is my improvisational instrument, the melody instrument. The guitar is harmonic structure. I'm not a good enough guitarist to improvise on it.

When I was 15, I made a solo record. It made Artie very unhappy. He looked upon it as something of a betrayal.

Lord, I am a surgeon and music is my knife. It cuts away my sorrow and purifies my life.