. . . whatever is not happening now is unimportant; it is merely curious.
I want it to be more universal than that - like a painter doesn't have to explain his life story away to justify his painting.
I don't read music; I taught myself guitar.
When I first started writing, a friend said I should be careful because I'm letting people know how to reach right in and play with my workings. And they do!
Therapy is like telling your nightmares when you're a kid; they lose their power to hurt and control.
The husk could be some useless bloke or losing myself and changing my DNA with bottomless grief.
To me songwriting is more like redemption. I can extract the poison or the pollen, the essence from a situation and the rest becomes a husk that blows away.
I should like to say that I left off smoking because I considered it a mean form of slavery, to be condemned for moral as well as physical reasons; but though I see the folly of smoking clearly now, I was blind to it for some months after I had smoked my last pipe. I gave up my most delightful solace, as I regarded it, for no other reason than that the lady who was willing to fling herself away on me said that I must choose between it and her.
Teach us to know that we cannot know, for the things of God knoweth no man, but the Spirit of God. Let faith support us where reason fails, and we shall think because we believe, not in order that we may believe.
success is 99% failure
In our hurried world too little value is attached to the part of the connoisseur and dilettante.