"On the other hand, the seventies were drab. That is, I am utterly fascinated by the fifties and sixties."

“What we really need is to realize how little we really need.”

“Patriarchy values the hard over the soft; the tough over the tender; punishment, vengeance, and vindictiveness over compassion, negotiation, and reconciliation. The 'hard' qualities are linked to power, success, and masculinity - and exalted. The 'soft' qualities are identified with weakness, powerlessness, and femininity - and denigrated.”

“I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.”

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“Theater going is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.”

“Think of the horse as your partner.and it's all one great dance. That's not to say it's always going to be easy or you won't have to work through issues. But when a horse is troubled or uncomfortable in our world, rather than show contempt for him, you must demonstrate empathy and work to convince him that you mean him no harm. You have some things that you'd like him to do 'with you', as opposed to 'for you'- and the best way to do that is as partners.”

“I'd love to write about my growing sexual awareness, but the press would turn it into something squalid.”

“Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.”

“The fumes of wine fermented in my head; it was one of those moments of intoxication when all that ones sees and hears, speaks to one of the adored.... One would willingly embrace all who smile, and one feels that he is brother of all who live.”