Streetlife serenader never sang on stages, needs no orchestration, melody comes easy, need no vast arrangement to do their harmonizing.

Most people are satisfied with the junk food being sold as music.

I've come to realize that life is not a musical comedy, it's a Greek tragedy.

They say that these are not the best of times, but they're the only times I've ever known.

You can’t go the distance with too much resistance

The graduations hang on the wall, but they never really helped us at all.

When I see an entire community disenfranchised, it disturbs me. Not that I'm a message guy, per se. I write about people. I like to write about human beings, not crap political rhetoric. I've tried to avoid that all my life. When I wrote about soldiers in Vietnam, I wasn't trying to make a political statement. I was trying to write about how screwed things were for soldiers, and how they still are.