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" I'm a very analytical person, a somewhat introspective person; that's the nature of the work I do. "

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" At the point where I'm trying to force something and it's not happening, and I'm getting frustrated with, say, writing a poem, I can go and pick up the brushes and start painting. At the point where the painting seems to not be going anywhere, I go and pick up the guitar. "

" 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. "

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

" When I came to California, it was the mecca of the world. Every young person on the planet wanted to be here. "

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

" My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb. "

" We have a war dictator who was not elected, he snuck in. so he punishes people that threaten him in any way, or even say something he doesn't like. It has no resemblance to democracy. "

" With a painting, you don't have to go back and paint it again. "

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

" In New York, the street adventures are incredible. There are a thousand stories in a single block. You see the stories in the people's faces. You hear the songs immediately. Here in Los Angeles, there are less characters because they're all inside automobiles. "

" If I'm censoring for anyone, it's for my parents. They are very old-fashioned and moral people. They still don't understand me that well. "

" 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. "

" I see bodies as individual things. "

" I had made all these rules for myself: I'm not writing social commentary, I'm not writing love songs. "

" For the first time in my career, I'm working in a fine-arts arena, so I'm finally getting some intelligent reviews. "

" Paul Simon started piling up a lot of words, more than the bar could handle, and I stopped! "

" I used to be monastic, almost. Now I'm like a Tibetan that has discovered hamburgers and television. I'm catching up on Americana. "

" I have one piece of music, since 1997, and I don't see it having lyrics. Where does it go in this world? So I haven't recorded it. "

" You have this mounting aggressive ignorance with the rabbit's foot of their particular religion. You don't really have any kind of spiritual law, just a kind of a rabid mental illness. The songs are a little slice of life. "

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

" I couldn't see passion as a bad thing. "

" I'm a little young for retirement. "

" I'm a Buddhist. "

" When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it. "

" 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. "

" I love to dance. "

" I conceived in art college at the age of 20, near the end of term. "

" I loved Debussy, Stravinsky, Chopin, Tchaikovsky, anything with romantic melodies, especially the nocturnes. Nietzsche was a hero, especially with 'Thus Spoke Zarathustra.' He gets a bad rap; he's very misunderstood. He's a maker of individuals, and he was a teacher of teachers. "

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

" The songwriting was almost like something I did while I was waiting for my daughter to come back. "