Love is only available to those willing to be continually brave in weakness.

You are not my dream girl.You are this earth. You are not a fantasy: you are my love. And love is friendship lit by a wooden match with a white tip on its red tip. I am your match, and you are mine.

I would like to say that your beauty made it difficult to breathe.

I would like to care more about you than about my feelings for you.

Many existing top 20 Scottish writers have flourished in part because of good turns done by institutions, arts community, libraries and bookshops.

I am not important. If I take a break, no one dies. And this is A Good Thing.

Carmen didn't like change, and she certainly didn't like endings.

I'm very learning-disabled, and I think it drove me to what I'm doing.

Someday perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and the we'll need no other light.

A man's drive for profit should be prompted by the desire to give charity.

Sometimes the fragment of a conversation, the color of the sky, the image in a dream, has everything to do with where the song begins.

If I wasn't writing poems I'd be washing my hands all the time.

As a songwriter, if you can touch people and make them feel a little less alone in the world, then you've done your job.

I wrote my songs despite the fact that I was a drunk, not because of it.