I consider myself a poet first and a musician second. I live like a poet and I'll die like a poet.

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

A poem is a naked person.

Adulterers in churches and pornography in the schools, you got gangsters in power and lawbreakers making rules. When you gonna wake up?

Mama, put my guns in the ground, I can't shoot them anymore. That long black cloud is coming down.

At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.

There are degrees of happiness. You go from one to the other and then back again. It's hard to be completely happy when those around us are suffering and groaning from hunger.