I wasn't interested in writing music that wasn't beautiful for me to listen to.

I did spend a year in high school being obsessed with Fleetwood Mac.

I wasn't born of a whistle or milked from a thistle at twilight No I was all horns and thorns sprung out fully formed, knock-kneed and upright.

People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

It broke my heart when I learned the moon had been passing the sun’s light off as its own.

Never get so attached to a poem that you forget truth that lacks lyricism.

I would happy for someone to download my music.

What a woman does is open doors. And it is not a question of locking or unlocking.

I am producing sounds that people are not used to hearing from the harp.

Lyrics are very different. There is a clear line between that and a poem. Something that has been a source of great excitement and delight for me is this idea that I get to rhyme.

We deserve to know light. And grow evermore lighter and lighter.

If people read poetry, they would be happier.

No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid.

Love makes you feel at home in existence.

Man brings all things to the test of himself, and this is notably true of lightning.

So whatever it is you want, need or desire or just like to have, you better try to get it now, 'cause this is the only time there is.

I'd like to think that my films are personal enough to exist without hearkening back to their respective novels.

We need to remember across generations that there is as much to learn as there is to teach.

If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being vulgar.

Every novel starts with a theme, and I am constantly looking for big ideas.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.