I didn't come out of a cereal box.
I met a young man who was wounded in love, I met another man who was wounded in hatred.
Remember when you're out there trying to heal the sick, that you must always first forgive them.
I don't know if I call myself a poet or not. I would like to, but I'm not really qualified to make that decision, because I come in on such a back door, that I don't know what a Robert Frost or a [John] Keats or a T.S. Eliot would really think of my stuff.
I make my stand and remain as I am, and bid farewell and not give a damn.
In writing songs, I've learned as much from Cezanne as I have from Woody Guthrie.