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

Everybody knows that the boat is leaking. Everybody knows the captain lied. Everybody got this broken feeling, like their father or their dog just died. Everybody talking to their pockets. Everybody wants a box of chocolates and a long-stem rose. Everybody knows.

I lit a thin green candle to make you jealous of me, but the room just filled up with mosquitoes.

When you're not feeling holy, your loneliness says that you've sinned.

I think the term poet is a very exalted term and should be applied to a man at the end of his work. When he looks back over the body of his work and he's written poetry then let the verdict be that he's a poet.

I don't think there's any difference between a crush and profound love. I think the experience is that you dissolve your sentries and your battalions for a moment and you really do see that there is this unfixed free-flowing energy of emotion and thought between people, that it really is there.

It is different [to perform in Israel] because it arises from very deep wells of affiliation.