You'll walk with me out on the wire, cuz baby, I'm just a scared and lonely rider, but I gotta know how it feels... I want to know love is wild, babe, I want to know love is real.

The different social forces that affected my parents' lives or my friends' lives or I saw around me became essential for me to write about.

Talk about a dream, try to make it real. You wake up in the night with a fear so real. Spend your life waiting for a moment that just don’t come. Well don’t waste your time waiting.

I'm ready to grow young again

The poets down here don't write nothin' at all, they just stand back and let it all be.

In the past, some of the songs that were the most fun, and the most entertaining and rocking, fell by the wayside because I was concerned with what I was going to say and how I was going to say it.

Sometimes, at night you could hear the whole damn city crying.