I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.

My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.

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

I never could guess your weight, baby.

Well the book of Leviticus and Deuteronomy, the law of the jungle and the sea are your only teachers.

If you ever tell anyone about Jonah's sexual dysfunction, I'll never play music again.

Don't follow leaders.