Jim Jarmusch: Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.

A lot of poets too live on the margins of social acceptance, they certainly aren't in it for the money. William Blake - only his first book was legitimately published.

I didn't get my degree at NYU; I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

I think of poets as outlaw visionaries in a way.

When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

If anyone tells you there is only one way, their way, get as far away from them as possible, both physically and philosophically.

It's hard to get lost if you don't know where you're going.

The beauty of life is in small details, not in big events.

Each one of us is a set of shifting molecules, spinning in ecstasy.

The counterculture is always repackaged and made into a product. It's part of America.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Word by word, the language of women so often begins with a whisper.

Life is not a test or a competition. We only compete with ourselves.

Life is one long process of getting tired.

If my face was covered, I would be useless.

True love requires sacrifice.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

We all do 'do, re, mi,' but you have got to find the other notes yourself.

When love is not accepted move on; when love is not appreciated walk away; hopefully time will teach what real, true love is.

Ever since (childhood), I realized that one of the coolest things in the game is scoring touchdowns. And I think mentally that still drives me.

Loving-kindness is the better part of goodness. It lends grace to the sterner qualities of which this consists.