My goal as a writer is more to comfort than to disturb.

During times like these, the wise are influential.

Do you see how you hurt me, baby? So I hurt you too. Then we both get so blue. I am on a lonely road and I am traveling, looking for the key to set me free.

Bob [Dylan] is not authentic at all. He's a plagiarist, and his name and voice are fake. Everything about Bob is a deception. We are like night and day, he and I.

When I began experimenting, people weren't ready for it. Once it's in its second and third generational stages, people can accept it.

I find a lot of poetry to be narcissistic.

We call for the three great stimulants of the exhausted ones, artifice, brutality, and innocence.