You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.

A lot of people from the press want to talk to me, but they never do.

I never saw myself as a folk singer.

If you're not busy being born, you're busy dying.

Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don't get bored. My songs don't have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.

The hollow horn plays wasted words, proves to warn that he not busy being born is busy dying.

On the stone that remains carved next to his name, his epitaph plain, only a pawn in their game.