She can play my guitar note for note, she likes to stick her tongue down my throat.

Because Dickens and Dostoyevsky and Woody Guthrie were telling their stories much better than I ever could, I decided to stick to my own mind.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

You're going to die. You're going to be dead. It could be 20 years, it could be tomorrow, anytime. So am I. I mean, we're just going to be gone. The world's going to go on without us. All right, now. You do your job in the face of that, and how seriously you take yourself, you decide for yourself.

Although the masters make the rules for the wise men and the fools, I've got nothing, Ma, to live up to.

Little red wagon, little red bike, I ain’t no monkey but I know what I like.

Why Nicolas Sarkozy is the head of France, [he is] warm and extremely likeable.