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" I heard someone from the music business saying they are no longer looking for talent, they want people with a certain look and a willingness to cooperate. "

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" America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill. "

" I can't remember anything I ever wrote. "

" Back then, I didn't have a big organization around me. I was just a kid with a guitar, traveling around. My responsibility basically was to the art, and I had extra time on my hands. There is no extra time now. There isn't enough time. "

" I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic. "

" No one likes to have less than they had before. That's the nature of the human animal. "

" You know, Neil Young is singing Rock n' roll will never die, and Neil never rocked and rolled in his life. I mean, he rocked, but he didn't roll. He has got no swing in him. "

" My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. "

" Not to dismiss Gershwin, but Gershwin is the chip; Ellington was the block. "

" You wake up one day and suddenly realize that your youth is behind you, even though you're still young at heart. "

" I wanted to paint in a folk-artist-y way. My heroes were Van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, and Rembrandt. I think Picasso is about as a modern as I got. But I incorporated things that they rejected as well as movements that happened later. "

" An unhappy mother does not raise a happy child. "

" You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it's just complaining. "

" Sorrow is so easy to express and yet so hard to tell. "

" I always thought the women of song don't get along, and I don't know why that is. "

" In some ways, my gift for music and writing was born out of tragedy, really, and loss. "

" I'm a little young for retirement. "

" The thing that gave me the most pain in life, psychologically, and it gave me tremendous pain psychologically, is man's disrespect for nature. "

" I have always thought of myself as a painter derailed by circumstance. "

" I lost my daughter at 21. I had to give her up because I was broke, no place to take her, no money to take her. That was very traumatic. "

" I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here's a label I'd accept: I'm an 'individual.' I'm someone who can't follow, and doesn't want to lead. "

" I see music as fluid architecture. "

" Eventually, with success, I started to feel more and more isolated - like I didn't have a community of artists. "

" When you're trying to pass on the best of the stuff you're culling to what should be a hungry culture but you have it diminished... that's kind of disappointing. "

" I think I would go further into fine arts, I think, if I were to continue. "

" I love to dance. "

" The Beginning of Survival is my best album. I am very proud of it, and I am surprised at it, too. I thought some of Travelogue was a little heavy, but I don't think this is heavy. "

" When the world becomes a massive mess with nobody at the helm, it's time for artists to make their mark. "

" My family could only afford to get me the box of eight Crayola crayons, but I craved the one with all 24 colours. I wanted magenta and turquoise and silver and gold. "

" I don't like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshiped or spat out. "