I've spent my life butting my head against other people's lack of imagination.

No fish can swim until the King is born, until the King is born in Tupelo.

I've always had an obligation to creation, above all.

I don't write happy songs. Who does? I don't know anybody who writes happy songs, really.

I don't really care who collects my work, black, white, red, yellow. You have to also be consciously aware of, what does this mean in your home? And how are you supporting this work and the message behind the work?

The big problem with songwriting for me is starting a new song. It's the thing where all the anguish exists, not in the writing of the song, but the starting of the new song.

The society of whores stuck needles in an image of me.