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.

When blackness was a virtue and the road was full of mud, I came in from the wilderness, a creature void of form.

Passion is a young man's game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise. I mean, you're around awhile, you leave certain things to the young. Don't try to act like you're young. You could really hurt yourself.

A cat's meow and cow's moo, I can recite them all.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes. You'd know what a drag it is to see you.

There's no black and white, left and right to me anymore; there's only up and down and down is very close to the ground. And I'm trying to go up without thinking about anything trivial such as politics. They have got nothing to do with it. I'm thinking about the general people and when they get hurt.