Look, I Made a Hat: Collected Lyrics, 1981-2011, With Attendant Comments, Amplifications, Dogmas, Harangues, Digressions, Anecdotes, and Miscellany

“Writing is a form of mischief.”

“A folktale without a moral is merely a whimsy.”

“It takes almost as much imagination to justify what you write as it does to write it.”

“Music is a foreign language which everyone knows but only musicians can speak.”

“Art is edited truth — edited to give it shape, rhythm, speed and punch. I've quoted the Communist dictum before: "If it isn't art, it isn't propaganda." Art is skill in the service of passion.”

“Daydreams may be the main source of creativity, but night dreams are the main source of solving the problems engendered by the daydreams.”