A poem is a naked person.
Life is more or less a lie, but then again, that's exactly the way we want it to be.
You must be vulnerable to be sensitive to reality. And to be vulnerable is just another way of saying that one has nothing more to lose. I don't have anything but darkness to lose.
I was so much older then; I'm younger than that now. From the back pages
Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.
Rod's a great singer. He's got a great voice, but there's no point to put a 30-piece orchestra behind him. I'm not going to knock anybody's right to make a living but you can always tell if somebody's heart and soul is into something, and I didn't think Rod was into it in that way.