I'm a nut for Bach as a composer.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".

I tell you what freedom is to me: no fear.

What kept me sane was knowing that things would change, and it was a question of keeping myself together until they did.

You can't help it. An artist's duty, as far as I'm concerned, is to reflect the times.

Life is short. People are not easy to know. They're not easy to know, so if you don't tell them how you feel, you're not going to get anywhere, I feel.

You have to learn to get up from the table when love is not being served.

Talent is a burden not a joy. I am not of this planet. I do not come from you. I am not like you.

How do you explain what it feels like to get on the stage and make poetry that you know sinks into the hearts and souls of people who are unable to express it

There's no excuse for the young people not knowing who the heroes and heroines are or were.

Slavery has never been abolished from America's way of thinking.

Sometimes coping with the difficulties success brings is much more difficult than coping with the difficulties failure brings!

Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.

Poetry is a wild water that flows as furious river from "spring" in the summer.

He that sows Thorns, should never go barefoot.

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

I've been in a treatment center for drinkin'. I stayed for two days, then escaped.

Protect your spirit, because you are in the place where spirits get eaten.

I don't have a crazy rider clause saying I have to stay at fancy hotels. I don't have a problem with staying at a Marriott. But I will admit that I've gotten just basic, regular service there.

Vermont is a country unto itself.

My fans are like no other. Completely original people.