I just read a book on how to get control of my time and therefore of my life. My time has always had a tendency to slip away from me and do as it ple….
Is there an aesthetic "fit" in my work between God and the world? The "I' in my poems has from the beginning identified himself as Catholic, and my b….
The whites are the same everywhere. I see them every day..
Money won is always better than money earned..
Maybe it's what we don't say/that saves us..
If somebody says, "Oh, we're going to improvise!," I'm like, Oh, get me out of here..
Somebody referred to me as a ringleader, which I wouldn't have classed myself as, but anyway, there you go..
My politics is my religion, my religion is my politics..
Since I started making music, it had always been for myself..
It's not surprising to me that books ended up playing a central role in my life, but it is somewhat mysterious that poetry did..
If you go to Germany and get drunk, at some point you will try to look up Hitler in the phone book..
Do not be critics, you people, I beg you. I was a critic and I wish I could take it all back because it came from a smelly and ignorant place in me, ….
Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this..
But I hope I will never have a life that is not surrounded by books, by books that are bound in paper and cloth and glue, such perishable things for ….
It was a good moment, the kind you would like to press between the pages of a book, or hide in your sock drawer, so you could touch it again..
It wasn't that I had gotten it right . . . but that I had gotten true..
We find ourselves only by looking to what we’re not..
There you are, sir. There's nothing more than to love and be loved..
From your parents you learn love and laughter and how to put one foot before the other. But when books are opened you discover that you have wings..
My general approach to making art making hasn't changed much since I was 20, poor, and writing songs in my bedroom wanting to get my art out of my bo….
Do something. Do something small. Do something small but useful. Do something small but useful now..