If you make your living writing, and you can't write anything, it's over. It's very frightening.

Like Yoga, the spiritual life is actually very difficult.

Let your soul be your pilot.

Money's only important when you don't have any.

I find that the rhythm of going on long walks will suggest melodies.

I see songs not as a commodity used up when the album goes off the charts, which is often the case with pop songs. I see them as a body of work. Life should be breathed into them.

Melancholy is no bad thing.