You may think things didn't change much after the 60s 'revolution' - but they did. The levels of prescriptive disapproval for anyone who stepped outside the norm receded.

I am not good at aligning myself with any movement that comes along but also I don't like the thought of sitting back and doing nothing.

If in anything I have faith in something you could call the human spirit - I have faith it will always save itself at the last minute.

I listen to other people's music now. I didn't for many years but now I am fascinated again as much as I was when I started out.

I knew I wanted to do something that wasn't just domestic and endless but I had no idea what and no inkling that it could ever be music.

I have been struck by the way all the young people I've met through coming back to music are so much more generous-spirited with each other than I remembered people being. It gives me hope.

I'm sure the audience could see me trembling. I want to do more live work; my next goal is to shake the fear.

Once in a while i am struckall over again... by just how blue the sky appears .. on wind-played autumn mornings, blue enoughto bruise a heart.

I spent the rest of the day in someone else's story. The rare moments that I put the book down, my own pain returned in burning stabs.

The marks we leave are too often scars.

Someone who lives always with a plane schedule in the drawer lives on a slightly different calendar.

Having a college degree does not make you educated. Always learning new things is what makes you educated.

There was a time when I do not understand poetry.

When it comes to the important things one is always alone.

We bear the sole, relentless tenderness.

I think life is self-examination. Certainly the voyage that one takes.

You know, I think whatever a comic talks about onstage is all they talk about offstage.