I don't call myself a poet, because I don't like the word..

You breathed on me and made my life a richer one to live, when I was deep in poverty you taught me how to give. Dried the tears up from my dreams and….

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 ….

Creativity has a lot to do with the main idea. Inspiration is what comes when you are dealing with the idea. But inspiration won't invite what's not ….

After a while you earn that privacy is something you can sell, but you can't buy it back..

The song was there before me, before I came along. I just sorta came down and just sorta took it down with a pencil, but it was there before I came a….

I fought with my twin, the enemy within..

God bless you all with peace, tranquility and good will..

I want to use songs that everybody knows or thinks they know. I want to show them a different side of it and open up that world in a more unique way.….

DESTINY is a feeling you have that you know something about yourself nobody else does. The picture you have in your own mind of what you're about WIL….

The land of milk and honey, they say it is the land of money..

Opportunities may come along for you to convert something -something that exists into something that didn't yet. That might be the beginning of it. S….

I never did use earphones until into the Eighties or Nineties. I don't like to use earphones. I've never heard anybody sing with earphones effectivel….

The people in my songs are all me..

Too much information about nothing..

He not busy being born is busy dying..

The purpose of art is to stop time..

To preach of peace and brotherhood, oh what might be the cost? A man he did it long ago, and they hung him on a cross..

Money doesn't exist because I don't recognize it..

There is a house in New Orleans they call the Rising Sun, and it's been the ruin of many a poor boy and God I know I'm one..

I'm not the kind of cat that's going to cut off an ear if I can't do something..