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" When you stop thinking about yourself all the time, a certain sense of repose overtakes you. "

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" I continually blacken pages and scribble away, so I always have a number of songs that are half-finished. "

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

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" In dreams the truth is learned that all good works are done in the absence of a caress. "

" I've never sold widely enough to be able to relax about money. I had two kids and their mother to support and my own life. So there was never an option of cutting out. "

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" I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever. "

" Music is the emotional life of most people. "

" To every people the land is given on condition. Perceived or not, there is a Covenant, beyond the constitution, beyond sovereign guarantee, beyond the nation's sweetest dreams of itself. "

" I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it. "

" I had girlfriends who really irritated me by their devotion to the Beatles. I didn't begrudge them their interest, and there were songs like 'Hey Jude' that I could appreciate. But they didn't seem to be essential to the kind of nourishment that I craved. "

" 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. "

" My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn't pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs. "

" Out of the thousands who are known or who want to be known as poets, maybe one or two are genuine and the rest are fakes, hanging around the sacred precincts, trying to look like the real thing. "

" I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability. "

" Women stand for the objective world for a man. They stand for the thing that you're not and that's what you always reach for in a song. "

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

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" Let judges secretly despair of justice: their verdicts will be more acute. Let generals secretly despair of triumph; killing will be defamed. Let priests secretly despair of faith: their compassion will be true. "

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" I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog. "