Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

The real power is in the hands of small groups of people and I don't think they have titles.

Art is a never-ending dance of illusions.

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.

Up north, you could find these radio stations with no name on the dials that played pre-rock 'n' roll things - country blues. We would hear Slim Harpo or Lightnin' Slim and gospel groups, the Dixie Hummingbirds, the Five Blind Boys of Alabama. I was so far north, I didn't even know where Alabama was.

A lot of people don't have much food on their table. But they got a lot of forks 'n knives. And they got to cut somethin'.

I didn't come out of a cereal box.