I listen to the radio and I like all kinds of music, you know, but I like to hear from people who have been there. Hank Williams has been there.

Seven to eleven is a huge chunk of life, full of dulling and forgetting. It is fabled that we slowly lose the gift of speech with animals, that birds no longer visit our windowsills to converse. As our eyes grow accustomed to sight they armor themselves against wonder.

there's no forsaking what you love no existential leap as witnessed here in time and blood a thousand kisses deep

I would say the hummingbird really deserves the royalties on [some of my songs].

Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief... Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried... And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear.

I couldn't feel so I learned to touch.

Certainly within any decadent period, you would probably find the purest expressions of conviction, and I do not see that in many of the people I know.