"I ain't never far away from a..." - Quote by Dolly Parton

“I prefer my music. I'm more of a one-nighter kind of person than to do a squat-down job for three months or whatever.”

“Don't judge me by the cover, 'cause I'm a real good book.”

“Wildflowers don't care where they grow.”

“I think that only daring speculation can lead us further and not accumulation of facts.”

“If a writer stops observing he is finished. But he does not have to observe consciously nor think how it will be useful. Perhaps that would be true at the beginning. But later everything he sees goes into the great reserve of things he knows or has seen.”

“The moment our discourse rises above the ground-line of familiar facts, and is inflamed with passion or exalted thought, it clothes itself in images. A man conversing in earnest, if he watch his intellectual processes, will find that always a material image, more or less luminous, arises in his mind, contemporaneous with every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.... This imagery is spontaneous. It is the blending of experience with the present action of the mind. It is proper creation.”

“I often get ideas for songs on the tour bus at odd times. Like at 6am when no one is around, I'd just write.”

“I like to write about love and love lost because I feel like there are so many different subcategories of emotions that you can possibly delve into.”

“In 'Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds' I was visualizing Alice in Wonderland, an image of this female who would come and save me - a girl with kaleidoscope eyes who would be the real love of my life. Lucy turned out to be Yoko.”