“Inspiration, move me brightly, light the song with sense and color, hold away despair”

“I see the lights so brightly”

“In order for the light to shine so brightly, the darkness must be present.”

“And an inky-colored despair of rejection enveloped me like the black tortilla of depression around a pain burrito.”

“I have gained very great inspiration from the Cornish land- and seascape, the horizontal line of the sea and the quality of light and colour which reminds me of the Mediterranean light and colour which so excites one’s sense of form; and first and last there is the human figure which in the country becomes a free and moving part of a greater whole. This relationship between figure and landscape is vitally important to me. I cannot feel it in a city.”

“Children wear their natures like brightly-colored clothes; that’s why they lie so transparently. Adulthood is the art of deceit.”

“Despair and bitterness are not the only songs in the world”

“Your old home town's so far away, but inside your head there's a record that's playing, a song called 'Hold On”

“While 9 Songs is sexually explicit in the basic sense, its directness is what's most fascinating, and ultimately most moving, about it.”

“When trouble haunts me, need I sigh?
No, rather smile away despair;”