I wish I was as sure about things as Bill Monroe was sure about things.

Bob Dylan is one of the very few people in the history of popular music who you can unquestionably apply that word [genius] to.

Becoming interested in poetics got me interested in theater. Theater is supposed to be poetry, you know, before it's anything else. It just doesn't fly if it isn't musical.

I grew up counterculture. I'm essentially a hippie, and I'm essentially a folkie.

I still write more songs about girls than anything else.

I don't separate writing songs from poetry and short fiction. In the area where I work in my house, there's a word processor and a guitar.

Sonnets are guys writing in English, imitating an Italian song form. It was a form definitely sung as often as it was recited.