My mind was always very cluttered, so I took great pains to simplify my environment, because if my environment were half as cluttered as my mind, I wouldn't be able to make it from room to room.

The basic function of popular music is to create an environment for courting, lovemaking, and doing the dishes. It's useful because it addresses the heart in the midst of all these activities, and it will always be useful in this very important way.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

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

My two great heroes are W. B. Yeats and Federico García Lorca.

And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.