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I've always been into self-dramatization. I intend to live forever.
Creators care nothing for their systems except that they be unique.
Everytime you grab at love you will lose a snowflake of your memory
You are locked into your suffering and your pleasures are the seal.
Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.
The birds they sangat the break of day.Start again!!I heard them say
I have to finish it in order to know whether it deserves to survive.
I didn't want to write for pay. I wanted to be paid for what I write.
When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.
Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.
And I had not much of a voice. I didn't play that great guitar either.
I looked into [Prozac]. I must say that it is certainly a wonder drug.
Everybody knows that you've been faithful, give or take a night or two.
Show me slowly what I only know the limits of Dance me to the end of love
Some people, it [songwriting] comes faster. Some people, it comes slower.
As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armour themselves against wonder.
You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself.
Probably all cultures, certainly Western culture, always have been violent.
Do not believe the truth. The truth is tiny compared to what you have to do.
Here's to the few who forgive what you do, and the fewer who don't even care
A heavy burden lifted from my soul, I heard that love was out of my control.
The poor stay poor, the rich get rich / Thats how it goes / Everybody knows.
When we are touched by a song, it is because the artist cannot hide himself.
I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.
What were the bodies like on the beach? Ugly and white and ruined by offices.
We are so lightly here. It is in love that we are made. In love we disappear.
All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.
May everyone live, And may everyone die. Hello, my love, And my love, Goodbye.
First of all nothing will happen and a little later nothing will happen again.
It's time that we began to laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again.
One is given to self-dramatization from time to time. I intend to live forever.
And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.
The cutting of the gem has to be finished before you can see whether it shines.
I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.
Only in Canada could somebody with a voice like mine win 'Vocalist of the Year'.
I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].
The last refuge of the insomniac is a sense of superiority to the sleeping world.
At first first nothing will happen to us and later on it will happen to us again.
You were Marlon Brando, I was Steve McQueen, you were K.Y. Jelly, I was Vaseline.
Lift me like an olive branch and be my homeward dove Dance me to the end of love.
I was 15 when I first became deeply touched by the rhythm and structure of words.
Some people care about their work lasting forever - I have little interest in it.
I've often said if I knew where the good songs came from, I'd go there more often.
Anything I tell you is an alibi for something else." Then let's be quiet together.
It's hard to hold the hand of anyone who is reaching for the sky just to surrender
The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.
I always felt I was scraping the bottom of the barrel trying to get a song together.
Nothing can stop you from thinking. The human mind is designed to think continually.
You have money, fame, youth, beauty, talent. That's a good start... for feeling good.
The fact that my songs take a long time to write is no guarantee of their excellence.