Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

Maybe someday you will understand, that something for nothing is everybody's plan.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

It's not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you're a fake, that's tougher to live with.

I make my stand and remain as I am, and bid farewell and not give a damn.

I became interested in folk music because I had to make it somehow.

I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.