A poet is someone who stands outside in the rain hoping to be struck by lightning.

What you have to realize when you write poetry, or if you love poetry, is that poetry is just naturally the greatest god damn thing that ever was in the whole universe

I want you to hear a new version of Dueling Banjos. Anyone else is welcome.

Flight is the only truly new sensation than men have achieved in modern history.

I want a fever, in poetry: a fever, and tranquillity.

There are so many selves in everybody, and just to explore and exploit one is wrong, dead wrong, for the creative person.

I once had the nerve to ask Picasso the question, 'What is art?' He answered, 'Art is a lie which makes us see the truth.

I don’t believe that a reviewer or a critic can really criticize well unless he can praise well.

To be precise and reckless: that is the consummation devoutly to be wished.

Poetry makes possible the deepest kind of personal possession of the world.

Find out what you do best, and then don't do it.

When I walk, I walk with you. Where I go, you're with me always.

It is easier to fall off of a ladder than to climb one.

That's why I do this music business thing, it's communication with people without having the extreme inconvenience of actually phoning anybody up.

I can't stress how much my daughter is an inspiration to stay sober. When I come home and she opens those big blue eyes at me, it's the most amazing feeling I could ever feel.

The oil industry has outpaced the building of a public consensus of the implications of climate science.

Freedom is having real choice. This offers a limited amount of choices. This is participating in a very imperfect system that we're desperately hanging onto, that we don't want to see further eroded.

I dont know how long Ill be trick or treating. Maybe Ill be 80 years old and still trick or treating.

If the Bible and my brain are both the work of the same infinite God, whose fault is it that the book and my brain do not agree?

Whether I played marbles, whether I played football or slam anything else, I wanted to excel.

The fact that no one understands you doesn't mean you're an artist.