No long-term marriage is made easily, and there have been times when I've been so angry or so hurt that I thought my love would never recover.
I feel I was born with the music coming to me, and that's not something to be wasted.
Some people would rather stay ignorant and self-satisfied.
I want to do some fiction writing, I've had some pretty good luck with short stories, I'd like to do a couple of larger things.
Wish I'd written Tikkun Olam – a Weavers or Peter Paul & Mary hit!
I learned the truth at seventeen, That love was meant for beauty queens, And high school girls with clear skinned smiles, Who married young and then retired.
I write a lot from instinct. But as you're writing out of instinct, once you reach a certain level as a songwriter, the craft is always there talking to you in the back of your head. . . that tells you when it's time to go to the chorus, when it's time to rhyme. Real basic craft. . . it's second nature.
Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.
Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast
Nobody wants to conduct an autopsy on a dead saint.
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity & disenchantment it is perennial as the grass.