I think music is the only thing that I'll ever really have.

My only feeling about superstition is that it's unlucky to be behind at the end of the game.

The difference between good and great is just a little extra effort.

I like to use simple words, but in a complicated way.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

We all have to rise in the end, not just one or two who were smart enough, had will enough for their own salvation, but all the halt, the maimed and the blind of us which is most of us.

The pain of love is the pain of being alive. It is a perpetual wound.

Poets deal in writing about feelings and trying to find the language and images for intense feelings.

For me, poetry is the music of being human. And also a time machine by which we can travel to who we are and to who we will become.

Concealing an illness is like keeping a beach ball under water.

You can find poetry in your everyday life, your memory, in what people say on the bus, in the news, or just what's in your heart.

Of course, to be fair, that was a parent's job. The world was so full of sharp bends that if they didn't put a few twists in you, you wouldn't stand a chance of fitting in.

Black Velvet in that little boys smile, Black Velvet with that slow southern style. A new religion that'll bring you to your knees.

Part of freedom is the right of each of us to go to hell in his own fashion.

I'll have that one, please.

What punishments of God are not gifts?

Even though I saw the executioner and the fire, I could not say anything but what I have said.

Democracy will be dead by 1950.

Being a producer is a very different experience than writing my own songs.

It's far too easy to qualify as an eccentric nowadays.

Friendship flourishes at the fountain of forgiveness.