America is in a runaway-train position and dragging all the world with it. It's grotesquely mentally ill.

I didn't like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me...

The most important thing is to write in your own blood. I bare intimate feelings because people should know how other people feel.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.

There was this mountain village in Russia where my music was getting in on some German radio station. I remember this because music used to get up to Saskatchewan from Texas. Late at night after the local station closed down.

A little lawyer on the tube, he said, its so easy now, anyone can sue.