Sometimes the silence can be like thunder.

If I had the stars from the darkest night and the diamonds from the deepest ocean, I'd forsake them all for your sweet kiss, for that's all I'm wishin' to be ownin'.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.

God knows there's a heaven.

Broken bottles, broken plates, broken switches, broken gates. Broken dishes, broken parts, streets are filled with broken hearts.

I'm not going to read any of these magazines. I mean, because they've just got too much to lose by printing the truth. You know that.

Everybody has their own idea of what's a poet. Robert Frost, President Johnson, T.S.Eliot, Rudolf Valentino - they're all poets. I like to think of myself as the one who carries the light bulb.