The purpose of art is to stop time.

I said, you know they refused Jesus, too. He said, you're not him.

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

I have dined with kings, I've been offered wings. And I've never been too impressed.

I feel like I'm knockin' on heaven's door.

Everyone of them words rang true and glowed like burning coal, pouring off every page like it was written in my soul from me to you.

My best songs were written very quickly. Just about as much time as it takes to write it down is about as long as it takes to write it...In writing songs I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie...It's not me, it's the songs. I'm just the postman, I deliver the songs...I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.