There's a wall between you and what you want and you got to leap it.

Fame it's like... When you look through a window, say you pass a little pub, or an inn. You look through the window and you see people talking and carrying on. You,can watch outside the window and see them all being very real with each other. But when you walk into the room, it's over. I don't pay any attention to it.

I come from way north. We'd listen to radio shows all the time. I think I was the last generation, or pretty close to the last one, that grew up without TV.

It's not easy to define poetry.

So I cut off my hair and I rode straight away, to the wild unknown country where I could not go wrong.

There doesn't seem to be any tomorrow. Every time I wake up, no matter in what position, it's always been today.

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.