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" My individual, psychological descent coincided, ironically, with my ascent into the public eye. "

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" What I do is unusual: chordal movements that have never been used before, changing keys and modalities mid-song. "

" I know my generation - a lot of them, they're getting old now, and they want to think back fondly, they want to kid themselves. A lot of them think, 'Yeah, we were the best.' That's the kiss of death. That's non-growth. And also that's very bad for the world. "

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

" I'm a little young for retirement. "

" I certainly don't want to be an angry old artist. "

" The considerations of a corporation, especially now, have nothing to do with art or music. "

" 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 thrive on change. That's probably why my chord changes are weird, because chords depict emotions. They'll be going along on one key and I'll drop off a cliff, and suddenly they will go into a whole other key signature. That will drive some people crazy, but that's how my life is. "

" I came through folk music simply because it was easy to get into it. "

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

" My name had gone stale, and no matter how progressive I got, it was my time to die. "

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

" My life came down to being a granny and watching a lot of television. "

" Edith Piaf knocked my socks off when I was 8, but I didn't know what she was singing about. "

" 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. "

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

" This is a nation that has lost the ability to be self-critical, and that makes a lie out of the freedoms. "

" I do have this reputation for being a serious person. "

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

" Americans have decided to be stupid and shallow since 1980. "

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

" To enjoy my music, you need depth and emotionality. "

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

" I'd had a rough childhood. "

" I'm a Buddhist. "

" 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. "

" I see music as fluid architecture. "

" I come from pioneer stock, developers of the West, people who went out into the wilderness and set up home with nothing but a pair of oxen. "

" I see bodies as individual things. "