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" The coming of the kids hasn't come out in my art yet. "

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

" 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. "

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

" Drag wasn't always counterculture. "

" 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. "

" I'm a Buddhist. "

" I don't like to make fluffy little songs, but now I want to make some light songs. "

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

" 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. "

" The God of the Old Testament is the depiction of evil. "

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

" But I have a tremendous will to live and a tremendous 'joie de vivre,' alternating with irritability. "

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

" 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. "

" I see bodies as individual things. "

" Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing. "

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

" My first four albums covered the usual youth problems - looking for love in all the wrong places - while the next five are basically about being in your 30s. "

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

" 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 the entire world as Eden, and every time you take an inch of it away, you must do so with respect. "

" There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down. "

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

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

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

" I'm a little young for retirement. "

" I'm not a pitiable creature. It's just that I suffer very eloquently. "

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

" It's in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie's birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That's why I like Charlie Parker. "