It’s in my stars to invent; I was born on Madame Curie’s birthday. I have this need for originals, for innovation. That’s why I like Charlie Parker.
I don’t like being too looked up at or too looked down on. I prefer meeting in the middle to being worshipped or spat out.
You could write a song about some kind of emotional problem you are having, but it would not be a good song, in my eyes, until it went through a period of sensitivity to a moment of clarity. Without that moment of clarity to contribute to the song, it’s just complaining.
I have an aversion to being mislabeled. Here’s a label I’d accept: I’m an ‘individual.’ I’m someone who can’t follow, and doesn’t want to lead.
Won’t you stay We’ll put on the day And we’ll talk in present tenses.
Just before our love got lost you said “I am as constant as a northern star” And I said, constantly in the darkness, Where’s that at? If you want me I’ll be in the bar.
Abstract Expressionism was invented by New York drunks.
Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels The dizzy dancing way you feel As every fairy tale comes real I’ve looked at love that way.
My husband had an education. He had a degree in Literature. I married into a camp of literary types.
I could drink a case of you.
All the news of home you read, more about the war and of bloody changes.
I am as constant as a northern star.
I wanna be strong, I wanna laugh along, I wanna belong to the living. Alive, alive, I wanna get up and jive, Wanna wreck my stockings in some jukebox dive.
Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees, please.
How does a person create a song? A lot of it is being open to encounter and to be in touch with the miraculous.
Heaven’s full of astronauts and the Lord’s on death row.
I didn’t like the sound of people gasping at the mere mention of my name. It horrified me.
We managed to put together a compilation that had some creativity to it. In the meantime I was listening to the free radio stations and I noticed that during their war coverage they were playing these songs born out of the Vietnam War that were all critical of the soldiers.
Sunlight will renew your pride.
All I really, really want our love to do is to bring out the best in me and in you too.