I really didn't consider myself happy or unhappy.

People today are still living off the table scraps of the sixties. They are still being passed around - the music and the ideas.

Democracy don't rule the world, You'd better get that in your head; This world is ruled by violence, But I guess that's better left unsaid.

You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

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.

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

You got men who can't hold peace and women who can't control their tongues. The rich seduce the poor, and the old seduce the young.