The inmates and prisoners, I found they were my kind, and it was there inside the bars I found my peace of mind.

An artist has got to be careful never really to arrive at a place where he thinks he's AT somewhere. You always have to realize that you're constantly in a state of becoming. And, as long as you can stay in that realm you'll sort of be alright.

America was founded on the backs of slaves.

Music attracts the angels in the universe.

Can't keep track of it no more, son's becoming husbands to their mothers, and old men turning your daughters into whores.

In the valley of the giants where the stars and stripes explode, the peaches they were sweet and the milk and honey flowed.

You don't need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows.