Poetry is fascinating. As soon as it begins the poetry has changed the thing into something extra, and somehow prose can go over into poetry.

Shiva danced the world into existence... that's a very nice thought.

The blues are like the fugue in 18th century. It's probably the music that belongs most to our time.

Music remains the most strange of the materials because we don't understand what happens when music moves you.

Music is a performance and needs the audience.

I'm outside the music I've made. I have no interest in it.

I remain a humanist. We are a very curious race.

I've seldom become nostalgic or settled.

The Greek sculptor - I don't think he was very different from any of us.

I think we're all pretty odd.

Music is a performing art, as any Native American will tell you. It isn't there in the score.

Philosophers' Syndrome: mistaking a failure of the imagination for an insight into necessity.

I only want to write. I don't care about directing really. I've tried it and it was fun, but it's not like I have to.

One can only forget about time by making use of it.

Holy angel, in Heaven blessed, My spirit longs with thee to rest

The fear is simply because you are not living with life, You are living in your mind.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

If every man works at that for which nature fitted him, the cows will be well tended.

Something about her suggested that her leisure activities included wrestling large woodland animals and banging bricks together.

The information-deprived general populace might have been surprised this week to see a lower paycheck.

The gift of writing is to be self-forgetful... to get a surge of inner life or inner supply or unexpected sense of empowerment, to be afloat, to be out of yourself.