Songs don’t dignify human activity. Human activity dignifies the song.

How bitter were the Prozac pills of the last few hundred mornings

And most people have a woman in their heart, most men have a woman in their heart and most women have a man in their heart.

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

There's a deep tribal aspect to my own nature. So when I'm in contact with those deep resources, of course I feel a very special kind of nourishment.

We're always experiencing joy or sadness. But there are lots of people who've closed down. And there are times in one's life when one has to close down just to regroup.

A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.