I remember Bob Dylan saying in an interview that at a certain point he'd had to learn to do consciously what he'd previously done unconsciously or automatically. That resonates.

I wanted to be a poet and/or an artist, but I was very lazy (frightened of failure, I guess) and drank too much.

One of the beauties of working in radio is the way a whole setting can be richly evoked simply by the addition to the track of a little birdsong and a church bell in the distance.

Some songs seem to achieve the quality of a geometric object - a ball, box, or cone - and I don't mess with 'em.

Songs came first. I started out in 1965 trying to copy the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones, like most kids I knew. I'm still trying. Songs are hard to beat.

With you life is wonderful, with out you its unbearable

Where your money goes, there your heart follows.

To see a candle's light one must take it into a dark place.

Can death be sleep, when life is but a dream, And scenes of bliss pass as a phantom by?---"On death

Time limps when you are not having fun.

I like sharing stuff with people. I feel like it's kind of at their own discretion, you can see too much if you want to see too much.

A studio is a good place to smoke your pipe.

This life we have is short, so let us leave a mark for people to remember.

You can love many people. But the truth is you can only be IN LOVE with just ONE.

Take but degree away, untune that string, and hark, what discord follows!