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" My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca. "

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" The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way. "

" Journalists, especially English journalists, were very cruel to me. They said I only knew three chords when I knew five! "

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" I don't have any sense or urgency about any of my writing, actually. I don't think mankind will be damaged if I don't put out a new album or a new book. "

" I've got beautiful reviews for all my books, and I'm very well thought of in the tiny circles that know me, but I'm really starving. "

" Well, for one thing, in the tradition of Zen that I've practiced, there is no prayerful worship and there is no affirmation of a deity. "

" I have a deep tribal sense. I grew up in a synagogue that my ancestors built. I sat in the third row. My family was decent. They were good people; they were handshake people. So I never had a sense of rebellion. "

" Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered. "

" I read with some amusement my reputation as a ladies' man. My friends are amused by that, too, because they know my life. "

" The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world. "

" Torah values are the ones that inform my life. "

" There are some people who come to me for some illumination on their problems. I guess they feel I'm writing about some of the things they themselves are going through. But I don't usually have much help to give - there isn't much you can say to someone in the midst of their own crises. "

" I never had huge amounts of money when I was young. I had huge amounts of fame, and I always had the sense of labor and recompense. I always said I don't want to work for pay, but I want to get paid for my song. "

" We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it. "

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" I like life on the road. It's a lot easier than civilian life. You kind of feel like you're in a motorcycle gang. "

" This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love. "

" I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face. "

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" Any startling piece of work has a subversive element in it, a delicious element often. Subversion is only disagreeable when it manifests in political or social activity. "

" There's always a group of songs that I'm working at. Some of them are 10 years old, and some of them are just a few weeks old. I'm always trying to adjust these songs to some position where I can bring them to completion. "

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