From the moment my head consumed the voice, the music and the lyrics, some time in the late sixties, I was caught in your world of beauty, dream and reality spoken in words that hit me with a lifechanging impact. Therefore I did not want to know the man, I just wanted this whole experience to be mine, mine alone...
But then you went viral, everybody "knew" you, and I realised I had also to get to know the man behind the enchantment.
And I did not get disappointed, as I had been afraid of, you are the man I hoped you would be, sharing you with the world is a bit annoying, but then again seeing so many people climb into the beauty of your lyrics, music and your life approach can only be a good thing.
You have given my inborne melancholy a place to live and a place to become a beautiful thing. I can surely say that you are the man, perhaps giving a room also for my son in that picture, who has had the biggest impact on my inner life ever, and at eighty you still rule my universe.