Lord knows I've paid my dues getting through, tangled up in blue.
You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.
It was [meeting with Nicolas Sarkozy] like looking at my mirror image.
I heard the tongues of angels and the tongues of men and it all sounded no different to me.
You I am sure will forgive me for sincerely remarking that you might curb your magnanimity and be more of an artist, and 'load every rift' of your subject with ore.