A lot of the early songs I wrote were about the experience of going to London and meeting rent boys and transvestites and drag queens. A lot of my ea….

Annette had kissed me. Who would’a thunk it?.

I don't read music. Not even essentially. Not even nonessentially..

I'd always wanted to write a song about a leather jacket and how wearing it makes you feel. I love leather jackets, and I've got a big collection of ….

Albums, with me, have never had an easy birth. Especially when all the songs are self-written songs..

The more seriously you take yourself, the less others will..

There is no beginning too small..

Three Songs 1 Mountain. I whip my quick horse and don't dismount and look back in wonder. The sky is three feet away. 2 Mountain. The sea collapses a….

The more you love, the more you can love - and the more intensely you love..

I'm a happily declared chocoholic. I keep it everywhere, even my nightstand..

The further you get from power, the closer you come to the truth..

What poetry can, must, and will always do for us: it complicates us, it doesn’t ‘soothe.’.

For things to change, we must change..

Everything passes. Nobody gets anything for keeps. And that's how we've got to live..

When I start to write a song, I have the words and I have the melody, and then it's just a matter of making it to the end. I think if I have somethin….

Europeans have quarrelled since the beginning of time..

I never trash talk, I don't like to trash talk. I like to be friends with all the other boxers..

When we build on our strengths and daily successes — instead of focusing on failures — we simply learn more..

If you will not try, you will go to your grave with your song still inside you..

What is religion? That which is never spoken..

Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world.