Back seat drivers don’t know the feel of the wheel but they sho’ know how to make a fuss" Bob Dylan/Bonnie Raitt, “Let’s Keep It Between Us,” 1982

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WILL COME TRUE. It's a kind of a thing you kind of have to keep to your own self, because it's a fragile feeling, and you put it out there, then someone will kill it. It's best to keep that all inside.

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.

When you asked me how I was doing, was that some kind of joke

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

I made a bargain with him, the chief in a world we can't see. (devil)

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.