“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”
Beauty“It's not easy to define poetry.”
Poetry“I define nothing. Not beauty, not patriotism. I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.”
Beauty“My father probably thought the capital of the world was wherever he was at the time. It couldn't possibly be anyplace else. Where he and his wife were in their own home, that, for them, was the capital of the world.”
Home“What good are fans? You can't eat applause for breakfast. You can't sleep with it.”
Good“I like America, just as everybody else does. I love America, I gotta say that. But America will be judged.”
Love“I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours.”
Dreams“Folk music is a bunch of fat people.”
Music“I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.”
Freedom“What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.”
Money“It's not easy to define poetry.”
Poetry“Money doesn't talk, it swears.”
Money“Death to me means nothing as long as I can die fast.”
Death“There is nothing so stable as change.”
Change“I am against nature. I don't dig nature at all. I think nature is very unnatural. I think the truly natural things are dreams, which nature can't touch with decay.”
Dreams“The land created me. I'm wild and lonesome. Even as I travel the cities, I'm more at home in the vacant lots.”
Home“I'm sick of giving creeps money off my soul.”
Money“At times in my life the only place I have been happy is when I am on stage.”
Life“You learn from a conglomeration of the incredible past - whatever experience gotten in any way whatsoever.”
Experience“Well, the future for me is already a thing of the past.”
Future“You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.”
Music“All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie.”
Truth