From bitter searching of the heart, quickened with passion and with pain we rise to play a greater part this is the faith from which we start.

All the lousy little poets coming around trying to sound like Charles Manson.

[Patrick Leonard] is such a magnificent composer. I don't think there is anybody working today with those kind of skills that could translate one of my tunes into that really beautiful chamber music.

I hope we [with Patrick Leonard] can come up with something orchestral with some spoken material. And I also, God willing, hope that perhaps another record of songs also might emerge, but one never knows.

Pay attention to the cracks, because that's where the light gets in.

Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a midnight choir, I have tried in my way to be free!!

It’s a pity if someone… has to console himself for the wreck of his days with the notion that somehow his voice, his work embodies the deepest, most obscure, freshest, rawest oyster of reality in the unfathomable refrigerator of the heart’s ocean, but I am such a one, and there you have it.