she stuck a bookmark in my heart and walked away

Books are carefully folded forests/void of autumn/bound from the sun

I think art can really serve to inspire a movement - and, of course, it has in the past. The Civil Rights movement wouldn't have the same resonance without the songs from everyone from Pete Seeger to Odetta to James Brown.

The music aids the message, it's there to punctuate and abbreviate and shape the silence

You change the beat up, you might change the way people dance to the music. If you change the way they move, maybe they'll think about it differently.

When I wake up in the morning, the first things that I see are the clouds. They're right there. I look out my window now and there's always, always a black bird of some sort on the ledge there. Usually I wake up and look at the birds.

Fax me a fact, and I'll telegram a hologram.