using parking meters as walking sticks.

If I exorcise my devils, all my angels may go, too.

Most changes in music, most exciting things that happen in music, occur through a miscommunication between people "I thought you said this." Poetry comes out of that too.

In terms of black music - the only music that we can call our own, that was really born here - I don't think a lot has been done to chronicle the relations between American history and where black music fits in.

I did my time in the jail of your arms

I'll be clickin' by your house about two forty-five, Sidewalk Sundae Strawberry Surprise.

bringing up children was]like living with a bunch of drunks...you really have to be on your toes all the time.