Some of the old folk singers used to phrase things in an interesting way, and then, I got my style from seeing a lot of outdoor-type poets, who would recite their poetry. When you don't have a guitar, you recite things differently, and there used to be quite a few poets in the jazz clubs, who would recite with a different type of attitude.

Whatever colors you have in your mind, I'll show them to you and you'll see them shine.

What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.

She speaks with a stutter and she and she walks with a hop. I don't know why I love her, but I just can't stop.

Being noticed can be a burden. Jesus got himself crucified because he got himself noticed. So I disappear a lot.

Yesterday's just a memory, tomorrow is never what it's supposed to be.

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. Sometimes you just want to do things your way, want to see for yourself what lies behind the misty curtain. It's not like you see songs approaching and invite them in. It's not that easy. You want to write songs that are bigger than life. You want to say something about strange things that have happened to you, strange things you have seen. You have to know and understand something and then go past the vernacular.