Money can't buy you back the love that you had then
I think any time you're at the end of a trip you're usually pretty ready to come home and start working regularly again.
If I didn't make a single song in two months, I'm slippin'. You can't just party every night.
A great song can come from anybody. A great performance can come from anybody. It doesn't matter who you are, and that's truly what I believe.
I don't come to Toronto often, so when I'm there it's always special and rare which I think makes it very exciting for my fans.
It's a really good time for California right now in music.
In a sense, touring is crazy. You go city to city playing the show over and over again. But there's something magic about being in front of people, so it's not like going through the motions every night. It's a different experience.
I try to attach myself to things around me so that they don't slip away.
There's a certain grain of stupidity that the writer of fiction can hardly do without, and this is the quality of having to stare, of not getting the point at once. The longer you look at one object, the more of the world you see in it; and it's well to remember that the serious fiction writer always writes about the whole world.
You may feel that you have eaten too much. . . But this pastry is like feathers - it is like snow. It is in fact good for you, a digestive!
I've thought of the last line of some poems for years and tried them out, It wouldn't work because the last line was much too beautiful for the poem.