There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

I never knew when I was gong to leave. I might be walking over to a kid's house, then of all a sudden I would just stick out my thumb and hitchhike across three states.

I think poetry is best read to oneself.

I'm respected, I'm still working, what more could I ask?

I put out a recording of me singing mostly jazz because I wanted people to know I'm coming from a jazz background.

Popular music has always had its really horrendous stuff.