Some girls are bright as the morning / And some girls are blessed with a dark turn of mind.

There's a world of troubleTrying to take its turn I can hear it shaking undergroundAnd half a dozen lessons I might never learn Not until them troubles come around.

I've never been the kind of person who would get up and wave my arms and scream and shout and say, 'Hey, listen to this, listen to this.

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

***A KEY WORD*** Imagined

If you leave your dreams on your pillow, you might as well just stay in bed. To make dreams come true you’ve got to get up and take action.

On paper it's perfect.But the thing about paper is: It burns.

Wouldn't it be great if you could only get AIDS by giving money to television preachers?

Someone in Ireland asked me how many Republican poets there were in the U.S., and I thought maybe two. Maybe there are 10,000 poets, and maybe there are two Republicans among them.

For a quart of ale is a dish for a king.

The bashful virgin's sidelong looks of love, The matron's glance that would those looks reprove.

I'm sick of people imposing cultural references and influences on me, but I'm not sick of people talking about my age.