Music is the emotional life of most people.
As I approach the end of my life, I have even less and less interest in examining what have got to be very superficial evaluations or opinions about the significance of one's life or one's work. I was never given to it when I was healthy, and I am less given to it now.
We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.
I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.
We used to play music for fun. Much more than now. Now nobody picks up a guitar unless they're paid for it.
And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
All of my writing has guitars behind it, even the novels.
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.
You can keep the body as well-oiled and receptive as possible, but whether you're actually going to be able to go for the long haul is really not your own choice.
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.
Torah values are the ones that inform my life.
My reputation as a ladies' man was a joke. It caused me to laugh bitterly through the 10,000 nights I spent alone.
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
One of the reasons I'm on tour is to meet people. I consider it a reconnaissance. You know, I consider myself like in a military operation. I don't feel like a citizen.
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.
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.
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.
I don't consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.