It's very helpful to start with something that's true. If you start with something that's false, you're always covering your tracks. Something simple and true, that has a lot of possibilities, is a nice way to begin.

Anybody can do bad work, but not everybody does good work.

The dialogue between what's going on in the world and what's going on internally seems to be a natural thing - well, it's natural to me, anyway, to have these thoughts.

I stepped outside to smoke a J and when I came back to the room, everybody just seemed to move.

I have my books And my poetry to protect me; I am shielded in my armor, Hiding in my room, safe within my womb. I touch no one and no one touches me. I am a rock, I am an island.

By the time I was 12 or 13, I felt that I was special, because I could play the guitar and write songs.

She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been