I feel like falling in love with the first woman I meet, putting her in a wheel-barrow and wheeling her down the street.
He swift don’t win the race. It goes to the worthy, who can divide the word of truth.
Done laid around, done stayed around This old town too long And it seems like I’ve got to travel on.
Art can lead you to God. I think that’s the purpose of everything. If it’s not doing that, what’s it doing? It’s leading you the other way. It’s certainly not leading you nowhere.
Well, I don’t know, but I’ve been told the streets in heaven are lined with gold. I ask you how things could get much worse if the Russians happen to get up there first; Wowee! pretty scary!
I was down in the sewer with some little lover.
The more you act the further you get away from the truth.
Passion is a young man’s game. Young people can be passionate. Older people gotta be more wise.
People have different emotional levels. Especially when you’re young. Back then I guess most of my influences could be thought of as eccentric. Mass media had no overwhelming reach so I was drawn to the traveling performers passing through.
Romance never does go out of fashion. It’s radical. But it’s out of step with the current media culture.
What politics I ever learned, I learned in the streets, because it was part of the environment.
Sometimes you get out from behind the wheel and let someone else step on the gas.
You just have to keep going to find that thing that lets you in the door. Sometimes in life when that day comes and you’re given the key, you throw it away.
You have to look at every one of your songs and be able to identify with them in a meaningful way. You can hardly sing your songs unless you’re in them. If you want to fake it, go ahead. Fake it if you want. But I’m not that kind of singer.
Most songs have bridges in them, to distract listeners from the main verses of a song so they don’t get bored. My songs don’t have a lot of bridges because lyric poetry never had them.
I like spiritual songs. They struck me as truthful and serious. They brought me down to earth and they lifted me up all in the same moment.
It’s not important what other people call you. If you yourself know you’re a fake, that’s tougher to live with.
I don’t usually purge myself by writing anything about any type of quote, so-called, relationships.
When I think of mystery, I don’t think about myself. I think of the universe, like why does the moon rise when the sun falls? Caterpillars turn into butterflies? I really haven’t remained a recluse.
My songs were influenced not so much by poetry on the page but by poetry being recited by the poets who recited poems with jazz bands.