Quotes About Reflection

I try to keep a Sabbath perspective.

During my sabbatical, I spent two years not listening to my songs at all.

I was probably scarred by getting the sack at Middlesbrough.

Nothing about life is sacred until we make it so.

Really, my sacred place is my study where there are books that I love and things that people have given me.

Books seem so much more - much more sacred to me, and more important and essential, than they were when I was young.

The most sacred thing you can get is time. That's all people want on their death bed; that's what it's all about.

If I don't make it, I'll be very sad that there are things I didn't do, but I'm happy that I've done what I have.

It can be really powerful to write something when you're sad.

My mother used to ask, 'Why do you always write such sad songs?' I don't know if I was different from a lot of adolescents in that respect.

I write a lot of sad songs!

I think the saddest thing in the world will be for people who face their death and realize they never lived. That won't be me.

It's the poignancy and sadness in things that gets to me.

Sadness was something I was thinking about in my life outside of writing, so it wormed itself into whatever I wrote.

There is a lot of sadness in America.

All the best songs have an element of sadness.

I don't watch TV. I don't watch anybody else's saga but my own.

He thought as a sage, though he felt like a man.

E.B. White's essays are the best things I've read about Maine - especially the one in which he's not sure if he can go out sailing any more in his sloop.

I used to be nervous about not working and so would work for the sake of it.

I was a car salesman, if you can believe it.

I wasn't a very good salesman.

I could be wrong about salvation. I could be wrong about a lot of things.

Writing is my salvation. If I didn't write, what would I do?