I Can't Even Say I Made My

The Fantasy Never Got Beyond That—i Didn’t Let It—and Though The Tears Rolled Down My Face, I Wasn’t Sobbing Or Out Of Control. I Just Waited A Bit, Then Turned Back To The Car, To Drive Off To Wherever It Was I Was Supposed To Be.

My Friends And I Took Songwriting Very, Very Seriously. My Hero Was And Still Is Bob Dylan, But Also People Like Leonard Cohen And Joni Mitchell And That Whole Generation.

We All Live Inside Bodies That Will Deteriorate. But When You Look At Human Beings, They're Capable Of Very Decent Things: Love, Loyalty. When Time Is Running Out, They Don't Care About Possessions Or Status. They Want To Put Things Right If They've Done Wrong.

Every Country Should Have A Strong Literary Tradition Of Its Own At The Center, But It Should Also Have An Interest In Other Countries.

Memory, I Realize, Can Be An Unreliable Thing; Often It Is Heavily Coloured By The Circumstances In Which One Remembers.