When I'm making records, I don't go in with any intentional [ideas for] cohesion, it just happens by accident. That's the X factor; you can't predict that.

I think I'm just really sensitive to the world. I really feel like I spend a lot of time "turned off".

I just find that humans are predictable and stupid and animals and nature are a lot more magical to me. I'm just interested in magic, and not the silly humans.

People forget history nowadays, he lamented, that is what the ego does, making one the prisoner of one's inflated present, ignoring the humble past one has lived.

My environment reflects the life I've led, the places I've visited and the people I've loved.

The acceptable is unacceptable. The truth is a lie. The good is pure evil. Even freedom has become a prison.

And this, our life, exempt from public haunt, finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, sermons in stones, and good in everything.

Then suddenly something just kicked me. I kind of woke up and realised that I was in a different atmosphere than you normally are. My immediate reaction was to back off, slow down.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long; and the age of the great epics is past.

Do not concern yourself with other people. Concern yourself with your own work alone.

There is an implied warranty that a commissioned work should last a lifetime. There is to be no charge.

But in a radically atheist universe, you are not only responsible for doing your duty, You are also responsible for deciding what is your duty.

I thought marriage was tough. Golf's like going over Niagara Falls in a barrel! It's a psychological game that gets into your blood.