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.

You'll find God in the church of your choice, you'll find Woody Guthrie in the Brooklyn State Hospital.

I've never gone for having a great voice, for cultivating one. I'm still not doing it now.

Charity is suppose to cover up for a multitude of sins.

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.

It's not easy to define poetry.

Crimson flames tied through my ears rolling high and mighty traps, pounced with fire on flaming roads using ideas as my maps.