The truth is far from you, so you know you got to lie. Then you're all the time defending what you can never justify.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

All this talk about equality. The only thing people really have in common is that they are all going to die.

It's not easy to define poetry.

If you choose to live outside the law, you must obey the law more stringently than anyone.

Twenty years of schooling and they put you on the day shift - look out out kid, they keep it all hid

Every singer has three or four or five techniques, and you can force them together in different combinations. Some of the techniques you discard along the way, and pick up others. But you do need them. It's just like anything. You have to know certain things about what you're doing that other people don't know. Singing has to do with techniques and how many you use at the same time. One alone doesn't work. There's no point to going over three. But you might interchange them whenever you feel like it. It's a bit like alchemy.