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.

I am an old scholar, better-looking now than when I was young. That's what sitting on your ass does to your face.

Act the way you'd like to be and soon you'll be the way you act.

I know there is an eye that watches all of us. There is a judgment that weighs everything we do. And before this great force, which is greater than any government I stand in awe and I kneel in respect and it is to this great judgment that I dedicate this next song...

Take one step to the side and it's all absurd.

I always considered myself a minor writer. My province is small, and I try to explore it very, very thoroughly.

The psychologists are valiantly trying to provide us with answers, the religious people are trying to provide us with answers. I think it properly falls on the cultural workers to investigate this predicament with a little less concern for the marketplace and a little more concern for their higher calling.