"True religion is real living living with all one's soul, with all one's goodness and righteousness."

"The environment is everything that isn't me."

"It is strange to be known so universally and yet to be so lonely."

"To raise new questions, new possibilities, to regard old problems from a new angle, requires creative imagination and marks real advance in science."

"Poetry is the utterance of deep and heart-felt truth - the true poet is very near the oracle."

"I don't think radio is selling records like they used to. They'd hawk the song and hawk the artist and you'd get so excited, you'd stop your car and go into the nearest record store."

"As I grew older, I realized that it was much better to insist on the genuine forms of nature, for simplicity is the greatest adornment of art."

"We human beings are tuned such that we crave great melody and great lyrics. And if somebody writes a great song, it's timeless that we as humans are going to feel something for that and there's going to be a real appreciation."