“The reality is not exactly what the song started out to be, but it's not a bad song.”

“There are songs that come free from the blue-eyed grass, from the dust of a thousand country roads. This is one of them.”

“...realities that kept the music silent, the dreams in a box.”

“Sometime I'm going to do an essay called 'The Virtues of Amateurism' for all of those people who wish they earned their living in the arts. The market kills more artistic people than anything else. It's a world of safety out there, for most people. They want safety, the magazines and manufacturers give them safety, give them homogeneity, give them the familiar and comfortable, don't challenge them.”

“The old dreams were good dreams; they didn't work out but I'm glad I had them.”

“The human heart has a way of making itself large again even after it's been broken into a million pieces.”

“Such physical matters were nice, yet, to him, intelligence and passion born of living, the ability to move and be moved by subtleties of the mind and spirit, were what really counted.”