After a while, if you are sufficiently bored or unemployed, you may want to read it from cover to cover.

this is every musician's dream, to stand in front of an audience and not have to prove your credentials.

Poetry is a verdict rather than an intention.

This is the most challenging activity that humans get into, which is love. You know, where we have the sense that we can't live without love. That life has very little meaning without love.

Your hair upon the pillow like a sleepy golden storm

It's easy to look down from the summit you've reached, or even the summit I've reached, and talk about the responsibilities of the artist, but most people are just trying to get their foot in the door and make a living.

Most of our distractions are designed to invite us away from this recognition, which is a good idea.