All that you've loved is all you own

I walked 500 miles just to see a halo, when I opened my eyes I was blind as can be.

I have an audio stigmatism whereby I hear things wrong - I have audio illusions.

I used to imagine that making it in music - really making it in music - is if you're an old man going by a schoolyard and you hear children singing your songs, playing jump-rope, or on the swings. That's the ultimate. You're in the culture.

Sometimes the magnetism of a song is impossible to ignore, and it demands that it be sung in a certain way.

When I started looking for pointed shoes, I used to go to Fairfax on Orchard Street in New York City, one of those little pushcart guys. I'd say, 'You got any pointy shoes?' They would go way, way in the back and come back with a dusty box, blow the dust off the top, and say, 'What do you want with these things? Give me twenty bucks. Go on, get outta here!' And that was the beginning.

and when they pulled her from the wreck, you know, she still had on her shades