I want to be paid for my work, not work for my pay.

I alwaysthought of myself as a competent, minor poet. I know who I'm up against.

I think that any songwriter - and I think that Bob Dylan knows this more than all of us - you don't write the songs anyhow.

I wish I could say everything in one word. I hate all the things that can happen between the beginning of a sentence and the end.

Well it's true, ever since I stopped eating meat I feel a lot better among animals, I feel I can be much more honest when I pat a dog.

Shouldering your loneliness like a gun that you will not learn to aim, you stumble into this movie house then you climb, you climb into the frame.

Prayer is translation. A man translates himself into a child asking for all there is in a language he has barely mastered.