Me and crazy Janey were making love in the dirt singing our birthday songs.

In America everything's about who's number one today.

You still had to find the music inside your language. You know, it was - that's a big part of what sort of moved me to begin writing the book. I wrote a little essay and I felt, yeah, this is a good voice. This is a good feeling. It feels like me.

You can't shut off the risk and the pain without losing the love that remains.

The moment you begin to depend on audience reaction, you're doing the wrong thing. You're doin' it wrong, it's a mistake, it's not right. You can't allow yourself, no matter what, to depend on them.

I cut my bow from the wood of this tree of evil. Of this tree of good, I want a kiss from your lips.

I'm the kind of person, I think a lot about everything. Nothin' I can do about it. It's like, I'm a thinkin' fool. That's a big part of me.