Look, when I started out, mainstream culture was Sinatra, Perry Como, Andy Williams, Sound of Music. There was no fitting into it then and of course, there's no fitting into it now.

No reason to get excited,' the thief, he kindly spoke, There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.

Every man's conscience is vile and depraved / You cannot depend on it to be your guide when it’s you who must keep it satisfied.

Good and bad, I define these terms, quite clear, no doubt, somehow.

Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.

You don't necessarily have to write to be a poet. Some people work in gas stations and they're poets. I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word. I'm a trapeze artist.

It was better to be in chains with friends than in a garden with strangers. [An ancient Persian proverb.] So true, huh?