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I can work on a verse for a very long time before realising it's not any good and then, and only then, can I discard it.

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I don't really understand that process called reincarnation but if there is such a thing I'd like to come back as my daughter's dog.

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If I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.

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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.

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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.

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When things get really bad, just raise your glass and stamp your feet and do a little jig. That's about all you can do.

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Music is the emotional life of most people.

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I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.

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

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Most of the time one is discouraged by the work, but now and again by some grace something stands out and invites you to work on it, to elaborate it or animate it in some way. It's a mysterious process.

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The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.

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We're in a world where there's famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it's very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?

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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.

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I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.

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How lovely are the portals of the night, when stars come out to watch the daylight die.

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The man's desire is for the woman; but the woman's desire is rarely other than for the desire of the man.

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I have often thought what a melancholy world this would be without children, and what an inhuman world without the aged.

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Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.

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Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.

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Poetry has been to me its own exceeding great reward; it has given me the habit of wishing to discover the good and beautiful in all that meets and surrounds me.

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